Autore: Edwards, Michael J.
Titolo: Rhetorical Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero
Rivista/Miscellanea: In : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou & Timothy E. Duff (ed.), Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives, Routledge, 2024, 310 p.
Editore: Routledge
Anno edizione: 2024
Pagine: 24 p.
Parole chiave: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Descrizione: Rhetoric lay at the core of education in the Graeco-Roman world of the first century AD. Plutarch will therefore have been thoroughly imbued with rhetorical precepts, which, it is proposed here, will have influenced his practices as a writer – and enriched them. This chapter discusses rhetorical influences on the composition of the Lives, focusing on the book which features the two most renowned orators of Athens and Rome, the Demosthenes–Cicero. It takes as its starting point the principle of the five parts of rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery. The first three of these facilitate analysis of the types of argument Plutarch employs (especially with regard to the Aristotelian triad of ēthos, pathos and logos), how he structures the Lives, and the stylistic methods he employs in his writing. Memory played an important role in Plutarch’s composition, while his comments on the delivery techniques of his two subjects were clearly of great interest to him as a minor public figure who was himself trained in those techniques. [Author]
Sigla autore: Edwards 2024
Titolo: Rhetorical Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero
Rivista/Miscellanea: In : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou & Timothy E. Duff (ed.), Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives, Routledge, 2024, 310 p.
Editore: Routledge
Anno edizione: 2024
Pagine: 24 p.
Parole chiave: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Descrizione: Rhetoric lay at the core of education in the Graeco-Roman world of the first century AD. Plutarch will therefore have been thoroughly imbued with rhetorical precepts, which, it is proposed here, will have influenced his practices as a writer – and enriched them. This chapter discusses rhetorical influences on the composition of the Lives, focusing on the book which features the two most renowned orators of Athens and Rome, the Demosthenes–Cicero. It takes as its starting point the principle of the five parts of rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery. The first three of these facilitate analysis of the types of argument Plutarch employs (especially with regard to the Aristotelian triad of ēthos, pathos and logos), how he structures the Lives, and the stylistic methods he employs in his writing. Memory played an important role in Plutarch’s composition, while his comments on the delivery techniques of his two subjects were clearly of great interest to him as a minor public figure who was himself trained in those techniques. [Author]
Sigla autore: Edwards 2024
