A bizánci szónok: Michaél Psellos
The Byzantine Speaker: Michaél Psellos
Author(s): Zoltán FarkasSubject(s): Cultural history, 6th to 12th Centuries, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Michael Psellus; progymnasmata; ekphrasis; synkrisis; ēthopoeia; Vita Auxentii; Chronographia
Summary/Abstract: Analysing an epigram (poem. 86 Westerink) and passages from the Life of St Auxentius and Chronographia the paper focuses on how the rhetorical exercises (comparison, personification, description) used in the course of oratorical studies appear in the literary works of the Byzantine writer, Michael Psellus. It is the device of characterization applied in the gradually developing genre of historia what makes Psellus’ opus magnum, an account of contemporary Byzantine history, truly unique.
Journal: Antik Tanulmányok
- Issue Year: 65/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 1-12
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Hungarian