<p>In Lydia as a Rhetorical Construct in Acts Gruca-Macaulay explores the sociorhetorical function of the story of Lydia a named Lydian woman ancient interpreters would have associated with cultural stereotypes of Lydians. As a rhetorical figure Lydia both influenced and was influenced by the ideology of the surrounding text in Acts 16 as well as the approach Luke&ndash;Acts as a whole takes to people who are somehow like Lydia.</p>