Bizantyjska teoria parafrazy a pierwotna wersja Progymnasmatów Teona
Byzantine Theory of Paraphrase and the Primary Version of Theon’s Progymnasmata

Summary/Abstract: The theme of this report is limited to the Antiquity and to the Byzantine period. The paper discusses Byzantine treatises and commentaries to the Aphthonios’ (Προγυμνάσματα) and Pseudo-Hermogenes (Περὶ μεϑόδου δεινότητος). About a theory of paraphrase wrote the Byzantine grammarian, Georgius Choeroboscus, three commentators of Aphthonios’ Progymnasmata: John of Sardis, John Doxopatres, the anonymous and two commentators of 24th chapter of treatise Περὶ μεϑόδου δεινότητος, who are John the Deacon and Gregory of Corinth. These texts are known for scholars of Byzantine rhetoric, but here they will be anew interpreted and shown in the context of the ancient tradition with a particular consideration of the theories of Theon in his primary version of Progymnasmata, which consisted of the chapter about the paraphrase. This chapter survived only in the old, Armenian translation and because of it scholars didn’t consider the full Theon’s theory of paraphrase in their works. The present report attempts to respond to the research question, of how Medieval Greek commentators understood, adapted and developed the ancient rhetorical theory of paraphrase.

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