THOUGHT – DICTION – FIGURES – METHOD – COLA – WORD ARRANGEMENT – CADENCE – RHYTHM: A SELF-STANDING SEQUENCE IN LATE BYZANTINE RHETORICAL HANDBOOKS Cover Image

THOUGHT – DICTION – FIGURES – METHOD – COLA – WORD ARRANGEMENT – CADENCE – RHYTHM: A SELF-STANDING SEQUENCE IN LATE BYZANTINE RHETORICAL HANDBOOKS
THOUGHT – DICTION – FIGURES – METHOD – COLA – WORD ARRANGEMENT – CADENCE – RHYTHM: A SELF-STANDING SEQUENCE IN LATE BYZANTINE RHETORICAL HANDBOOKS

Author(s): Vessela Valiavitcharska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, Rhetoric
Published by: Vizantološki institut SANU
Keywords: rhetorical sequence; elements of style; Hermogenean corpus; Rhetorica Marciana; Joseph Rhacendyta’s Synopsis Artis Rhetoricae;

Summary/Abstract: The aspects of style termed ἔννοια, λέξις, σχήματα, μέθοδος, κῶλα, συνθήκη, ἀνάπαυσις, ῥυθμός, found in Hermogenes’ De Ideis, begin to appear as a self-standing sequence in post-twelfth century rhetorical handbooks. The sequence becomes the object of contemporary theoretical developments, responsive to late Byzantine literary and rhetorical practice. The eight elements are extrapolated and summarized in a single chapter in the treatise On the Eight Parts of the Rhetorical Discourse, contained in vol. 3 of Walz’s Rhetores Graeci, but are also present as an unfolded, multi-chapter sequence in two fourteenth-century compilations: the anonymous Rhetorica Marciana and the Synopsis Artis Rhetoricae by Joseph Rhacendyta. This is a new and separate curriculum development, which was used to complement instruction in the Hermogenean corpus.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 95-112
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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