Κατεύθυνση Λογοτεχνία, σκέψη και πολιτισμός στον ελληνορωμαϊκό κόσμο
Library of the School of Philosophy

2024-12-16

2024

Koutsomichou Eleni

Κάρλα Γραμματική (Επόπτρια), Καθηγήτρια Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας
Καρβούνη Αικατερίνη-Νίνα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας
Χατζηλάμπρου Ροζαλία, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας

Λιβανίου Declamatio 14: Εισαγωγή, μετάφραση και ερμηνεία

Greek

Libanius’ Declamatio 14: Introduction, translation, and commentary

The present thesis refers to the 4th-century AD teacher of rhetoric Libanius and his rhetorical exercises. More specifically, it focuses on the translation and interpretation of his fourteenth (14) declamatio. This fictional sophistic declamation is historically based, and the figures mentioned (Critias, Callaeschrus) are known from the history of classical Athens.
The structure of this speech, the type of argumentation employed, and the other stylistic devices used, are some of the concerns that this paper aims to present and analyze.
Research on the same thematic area, namely Libanius' meletai and their use in rhetorical education during Late Antiquity, has already been included in monographs, articles, theses, and chapters of collective volumes. However, the aim of the present dissertation is to focus on an original modern Greek translation of the 14th declamatio, which has not been done before, as well as on its full interpretative commentary.
A text-based and interpretative approach is followed for this analysis. It is observed that through the creation of such fictional rhetorical speeches with a classical historical context, timeless values of the Greek ideal are passed on to the young students of the later Roman Empire.

Language – Literature

Late Antiquity, rhetoric, Libanius, declamatio, Callaeschrus, Critias, tyranny, Thirty Tyrants, burial

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