METHODOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF RHETORIC WRITINGS - SEMIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF HISTORICAL REFERENCES FOR ANCIENT MACEDONIA Cover Image

МЕТОДОЛОШКА ОБРАБОТКА НА РЕТОРИЧКИТЕ СПИСИ ― СЕМИОЛОШКО ТОЛКУВАЊЕ НА ИСТОРИСКИТЕ РЕФЕРЕНЦИ ЗА АНТИЧКА МАКЕДОНИЈА
METHODOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF RHETORIC WRITINGS - SEMIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF HISTORICAL REFERENCES FOR ANCIENT MACEDONIA

Author(s): Aneta Šukarova
Subject(s): History of ideas, Ancient World
Published by: Институт за национална историја
Keywords: Hellenic rhetoric; rhetors; political speech; discourse; Demosthenes; Isocrates; Aeschines; city-states; Macedonian basilea; Philip; Macedonian basileos; Macedonians; domestic; foreign; other

Summary/Abstract: A major asset in historical research are those literary works created cum ira et studioworks which directly reveal the truth in flagrante (in fire and passion). Such works represent the Hellenic rhetoric which, with its vivid oratorical public form and, above all, with its acute function as political speech, fully reflects the heated political practices of the time. Understandably, speeches, as being marked, always mediate between the marker and the one to whom messages are sent. Because of their temporal distance and polysemy, the speeches of the researched rhetors mediate not only the actual milieu of that time-the Athenian demos, the Hellenic genus, etc., -but also interact with every new researcher of those circumstances and times, who in that moment becomes a new collaborator, even a new critical accuser. The textual, contextual and out-textual messages have been sent through many space and time codes, so that they continually correspond with a new auditorium. In this sense, this discourse, too, has the courage and intention of sending new messages and confirming the meaning of rhetoric as history in process, history in growing, with all the reflections of thought and will, according to the many consequences upon historical practice.

  • Issue Year: 57/2013
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 29-39
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Macedonian