Menander magis orator: Menander’s reception and rhetorical paideia in the roman early Empire

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Unit:
Library of the School of Philosophy
Κατεύθυνση Λατινική Φιλολογία
Deposit date:
2018-06-13
Year:
2018
Author:
Pantazi Angeliki
Supervisors info:
Σοφία Γεωργακοπούλου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Λατινικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Δημήτριος Καραδήμας, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Γραμματική Κάρλα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Menander magis orator: η πρόσληψη του Μενάνδρου και η ρητορική παιδεία κατά την πρώιμη αυτοκρατορική περίοδο
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Menander magis orator: Menander’s reception and rhetorical paideia in the roman early Empire
Summary:
Comedies of Menander were the most popular within the well educated people during the imperial period, since they were used as a tool for the moral and rhetorical education of young people, as a model of ethopoiia for orators and as a mean of cultivated elite’s entertainment at dinner parties. The present study investigates the reception of rhetorical art and moral value of the major representative of New Comedy from Greek and Roman authors in the early Empire, who were orators, professional teachers of rhetoric, philosophers, satirists and scientists, who had fully absorbed the rhetorical education of their age, or others who had composed rhetorical treatises. They were Dionysius Halicarnasseus (c.60 B.C. - c.7 A.D.) Demetrius (c.1st A.D.), Quintilian (c.35-96 A.D.), Dio Chrysostom (c.40-c.120 A.D.), Plutarch (c.46-c.125 A.D.), Epictetus (c.50-c.135 A.D.), Aelius Theon (c.117-c.138 A.D.), Aelius Aristides (117-c.189 A.D.), Lucian (c.120-c.180 A.D.), Galen (129-c.199 A.D.) and Hermogenes (c.160-c.225 A.D.). First of all, it is attempted to prove the role of moral content and maxims of the menandrian comedies in the rhetorical paideia, their importance about the rhetorical ethopoiia and their influence on declamationes. The next topics of the study are the stylistic virtues of Menander (propriety - πρέπον / decorum, purity - ἑλληνισμόs / latinitas, clarity -σαφήνεια / explanatio, ornament - κατασκευή / ornatus), the types of style (rapidity - γοργότης – celeritas, simplicity - ἀφέλεια / simplicitas) and the menandrian ability in the stylistic imitation (μίμησις / imitatio) and invention (εὕρεσις / inventio). Furthermore, the philosophical elements of menandrian comedies used in philosophical dissertations (diatribe - διατριβὴ) are discussed, as well as the value added to them during the 1st and 2nd century AD, in the purpose of utilizing them as a kind of menandrian chrestomathy. The study finally aims at proving the rhetorical impact of Menander’s refined humor. The reception of Menander from Greek and Roman writers in the early Empire demonstrates that his plays were widespread in the Greco-Roman world more for their rhetorical and therefore educational impact than for their theatrical and comical dimension.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
Menander (342 B.C.-291 B.C.), rhetorical paideia in the early Empire, moral and rhetorical reception, Menander’s maxims, ethopoiia - ηθοποιία / adlocutio, declamation - μελέτη /declamatio, propriety - πρέπον / decorum, purity - ελληνισμόs / latinitas, ornament - κατασκευή / ornatus, rapidity - γοργότης / celeritas, clarity - σαφήνεια / explanatio, simplicity - αφέλεια / simplicitas, imitation - μίμησις / imitatio, invention - εύρεσις / inventio, diatribe, humor
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
107
Number of pages:
106
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