The structure of Hyperides' invective against Athenogenes

• Authors: Horvath L.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The present paper scrutinises the intrinsic argumentative structure of Hyperides' Athenogenes-speech. Since the speaker cannot rely on solid juristic foundation (as his task was to annul a valid, undersigned contract), in order to influence his audience, he adopts a threefold method of argumentation. First, Hyperides produces an impressive list of irrelevant laws, then he launches a bitter invective against Athenogenes and finally, which plays the decisive role, he targets the jurors (his well trained fellow-spectators of comedy) with cleverly chosen comic reminiscences. Quite uniquely in the history of Attic eloquence, the orator - as his main weapon - creates a striking scenario (both events and characters) of contemporaneous comic choreography. This is proven by thematic and linguistic parallels. On the basis of the new reading of the papyrus [col. XVI,1] we can also re-evaluate the invective against Athenogenes.

Keywords

EN

ATHENOGENES; COMIC REMINISCENCES; HYPERIDES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Journal: Antik Tanulmanyok (Studia Antiqua)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-56
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Horvath L.

• L. Horvath, no address given, contact he journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08HUAAAA03927781