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Apuleius' treatment of selected Progymnasmata in Florida

GACHALLOVÁ, Natália

Základní údaje

Originální název

Apuleius' treatment of selected Progymnasmata in Florida

Vydání

Graeco-Latina Brunensia, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 1803-7402

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00099510

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

EID Scopus

Klíčová slova anglicky

progymnasmata; second sophistic; Apuleius; rhetorical education; Florida; intellectual discourse

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 29. 3. 2018 14:27, Mgr. Vendula Hromádková

Anotace

V originále

The 2nd century CE was a period of the rising prominence of epideictic rhetoric represented by travelling professional speakers who gave ex tempore speeches, not rarely, in front of mass audiences of various social scales. The traditional curriculum of the elite rhetorical education was based on the forms of practice called progymnasmata. These were a set of common, repeating rhetorical techniques and patterns gradually increasing in difficulty and exercising written composition as well as public performance. Students were supposed to create their own variations on given themes to embrace the basic rhetorical skills on which they could draw in the further stages of their education or professional career. Apuleius, one of the most prominent intellectuals of this time, made use of progymnasmata not only during his study years, but also later in his career of professional speaker. This is most apparent from his Florida, a collection of excerpted speeches performed mostly in Carthage. In this paper, I pursue to present the variety of Apuleius' approaches to these exercises with regards to different purposes of particular speeches. My goal is to assess the significance of progymnasmata in elite education as well as in intellectual discourse in terms of continuity and variation.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1020/2016, interní kód MU
Název: Interdisciplinární zkoumání antických jazyků, jejich literatur a příslušných kultur – 2017 (Akronym: Staré filologie 2017)
Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Interdisciplinární zkoumání antických jazyků, jejich literatur a příslušných kultur – 2017, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty