The rhetorical exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes : "progymnasmata" from twelfth-century Byzantium / edited and translated by Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson
Progymnasmata are literally "exercises" that are "preliminary" to declamation, which is the composition and delivery of ostensibly impromptu speeches in the guise of fictional, mythical, or historical characters who serve as prosecution or defense in fictitious trial scenarios. B...
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Superior document: | Dumbarton Oaks medieval library 43 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, London : Harvard University Press, 2016 |
Utgivningsår: | 2016 |
Språk: | English Ancient Greek |
Serie: | Dumbarton Oaks medieval library
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Classification: | 18.43 - Byzantinische Sprache und Literatur 17.97 - Texte eines einzelnen Autors |
Fysisk beskrivning: | xxii, 394 Seiten |
Anmärkningar: | Literaturverziechnis: Seite 387-388 |
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Sammanfattning: | Progymnasmata are literally "exercises" that are "preliminary" to declamation, which is the composition and delivery of ostensibly impromptu speeches in the guise of fictional, mythical, or historical characters who serve as prosecution or defense in fictitious trial scenarios. Basilakes's collection includes highly polished examples of fable, narration, maxim, refutation, confirmation, encomium, and ethopoeia. Basilakes's exercises draw on myth, ancient history, the Bible, and other Christian texts, and they use specific words and phrases from ancient Greek epic, tragedy, historiography, and other genres. The progymnasmata also feature mythological and biblical stories that Basilakes treats more than once, the most obvious example being his handling of the myth of Atalanta as both a refutation and a confirmation. In other cases, however, he revisits stories so as to highlight different perspectives, changes in disposition, and moral dilemmas.... |
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ISBN: | 9780674660243 |
ac_no: | AC13420083 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited and translated by Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson |