(Re)discovering a Rhetorical Genre: Epideictic in Greek and Roman Antiquity

• Authors: Pepe Cristina
• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

Epideictic rhetoric has been traditionally stigmatized as flattery or empty show without any practical goal. Where does such attitude towards epideictic come from? To answer this question, we explore the ancient debate about the nature and the function of the epideictic genre. In the second part of this paper, we discuss the recent reappraisal of the epideictic among classical scholars and fi nally focus the attention on a promising fi eld of research: epideictic speeches in honor of women.

Keywords

EN

Greek and Roman rhetoric; epideictic; Aristotle; female eulogy

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
• Journal: Res Rhetorica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17-31

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Pepe Cristina

• Universita degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”

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