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Ancient declamation-the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios-defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, have come to be recognized. This volume, which contains thirteen essays from an international team of scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of declamation, focusing in particular on the various interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics. Contributions pursue a range of topics, but also complement each other. Separate essays by Brescia, Lentano, and Lupi explore social roles-their tensions and expectations-as defined through declamation. With similar emphasis on historical circumstances, Quiroga Puertas and Tomassi consider the adaptation of rhetorical material to frame contemporary realities. Schwartz draws attention to the sometimes hazy borderline between declamation and the courtroom. The relationship between laws and declamation, a topic of abiding importance, is examined in studies by Berti, Breij, and Johansson. Also with an eye to the complex interaction between laws and declamation, Pasetti offers a narratological analysis of cases of poisoning. Citti discovers the concept of natural law represented in declamatory material. While looking at a case of extreme cruelty, Huelsenbeck evaluates the nature of declamatory language, emphasizing its use as an integral instrument of performance events. Zinsmaier looks at discourse on the topic of torture in rhetorical and legal contexts.

Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Law in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Latin literature --- Greek literature --- History and criticism. --- Greek literature. --- Latin literature. --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Greek Declamation, Roman Declamation, Ancient Rhetoric, Ancient Law.

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This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students. --Provided by publisher.

Philosophy, Ancient. --- Exhortation (Rhetoric). --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Philosophie ancienne --- Exhortation (Rhétorique) --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Plato. --- Isocrates. --- Aristotle. --- Exhortation (Rhetoric) --- Exhortation (Rhétorique) --- Rhétorique ancienne

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How is it possible that modern scholars have labelled Maximus of Tyre, a second-century CE performer of philosophical orations, as a sophist or a ‘half-philosopher’, while his own self-presentation is that of a genuine philosopher? If we take Maximus’ claim to philosophical authority seriously, his case can deepen our understanding of the dynamic nature of Imperial philosophy. Through a discursive analysis of twelve Imperial intellectuals alongside Maximus’ dialexeis , the author proposes an interpretative framework to assess the purpose behind the representation of philosophy, rhetoric, and sophistry in Maximus’ oeuvre. This is thus as yet the first book-length attempt at situating the historical communication process implicit in the surviving Maximean texts in the concurrent context of the Imperial intellectual world.

Philosophy, Ancient. --- Sophists (Greek philosophy) --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Philosophie ancienne --- Sophistes grecs --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Maximus, --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Sophists (Greek philosophy). --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Rhetoric --- Massimo, --- Máximo --- Maximos, --- Maximus Tyrius --- Μάξιμος, --- Maxime, --- Maximus, - of Tyre, - active 2nd century

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Dans le monde grec du V siècle avant J.-C., la rhétorique est née du désir de trouver une alternative aux conflits armés. Paradoxe incontestable: plus de deux millénaires après, la rhétorique se porte bien... et la guerre aussi. Cette longue familiarité de l'argumentation et de la violence qu'elle est censée conjurer pose la question du statut et de la finalité du discours politique, tout comme elle conduit à s'interroger sur les raisons d'un échec au moins partiel. Ce discours n'a jamais cessé de faire l'objet d'un débat, sans cesse renouvelé par les conditions historiques, sociales et culturelles. Voilà pourquoi un spécialiste de rhétorique grecque, un latiniste philosophe, un linguiste et une spécialiste de communication ont souhaité organiser en commun un colloque international d'une semaine, dans la tradition des rencontres de Cerisy, afin de faire le point sur cette notion de discours politique et de jeter un pont entre la tradition rhétorique et les théories actuelles du discours et de la communication. Le présent volume réunit les contributions des intervenants. Elles sont, comme prévu, très diverses : Cicéron y croise Lionel Jospin, le commentaire d'une affiche publicitaire voisine avec l'étude du culte de la personnalité sous Louis XIV, on y découvre les ruses de la question rhétorique à l'Assemblée nationale aujourd'hui, le rôle de révélateur que jouent les gaffes commises par les hommes politiques ou encore l'importance du corps des acteurs et de l'espace politique lors de la dernière élection municipale à Toulouse, etc. Mais quelques grandes questions fédèrent ces enquêtes et les mettent en résonance par-delà les siècles, les disciplines et les méthodes : à partir de quand, pourquoi, dans quelle mesure peut-on parler du discours politique comme d'un genre spécifique, comment se constituent, se transmettent et se réalisent les normes de ce discours? Quelle part accorder à la théâtralité dans le dispositif scénique et/ou télévisuel où il s'incarne?…

Discours politique --- Discours politique. --- Rhetoric --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Communication --- Political aspects --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - Congresses --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - France - Congresses --- Rhetoric, Ancient - Political aspects - Congresses --- Communication - Political aspects - Congresses --- Language & Linguistics (General) --- communication en politique --- discours argumentatif --- rhétorique --- analyse du discours littéraire --- langage politique

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Classical Greek literature --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Rhétorique ancienne. --- Rhétorique antique. --- Apollodore de Pergame, --- Caecilius, --- Denys d'Halicarnasse, --- Hermagoras de Temnos, --- Théodore de Gadara, --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Early works to 1800.