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Jellemábrázolás Kritobulos történeti művében
Characterisation in Kritobulos' Historical Work

Author(s): Iván Tóth
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Ancient World
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Byzantine historiography; literary imitation; Thucydidean allusions; Homeric allusions; type-scenes

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I attempt to give some sense of how Kritoboulos of Imbros deployed the toolkit of characterisation, and of how subtle his means for ēthopoiia were. In doing so, I examine the interplays between characterisation, style and structure, and detect, where it is detectable, the historiographical traditions which Kritoboulos’ methods for forming characters stem from. I also try to answer the question why Kritoboulos used certain repeated phrases in his portraits.

  • Issue Year: 64/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 33-44
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian