Homer in the practical teaching of Greek rhetoric
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https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.48.109Keywords:
Homeric poetry, Progymnasmata, Rhetorical teaching, Antiquity, LibaniusAbstract
The purpose of this work is to analyze the wide, varied and nuanced presence of Homeric poetry in the fourteen types of preliminary exercises, or progymnasmata, which constituted the practical part of the introduction to the teaching of rhetoric in Greece and Rome, starting from the oldest known corpus, that attributed to the rhetorician Libanius of Antioch (4th century AD). The first part of the article will retrieve data from the corpus of exercises in general and the second part will focus on a pair of contrasting exercises.
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