Journal article
The anonymous progymnasmata in John Doxapatres' Homiliae in Aphthonium
Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Vol.102(1), pp.83-94
09/2009
DOI: 10.1515/BYZS.2009.004
Abstract
This article examines the anonymous progymnasmata in John Doxapatres' commentary on Aphthonius' Progymnasmata for evidence about their authorship, origin, and relations to other progymnasmata. These exercises include three chreias, a refutation and confirmation of the myth of Ganymedes, an encomium and invective of Agamemnon, a comparison of the grapevine and olive tree, and an ethopoeia on the deposition of the emperor Michael V Kalaphates. In addition to providing a formal rhetorical analysis of the exercises, the article offers further support for the view of R. F. Hock and E. N. O'Neil (The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises, 2002) that Doxapatres did not compose these exercises and that they all derive from a single collection. In an appendix, it argues that George Pachymeres, in his comparison of the olive tree and grapevine, used the anonymous comparison in Doxapatres and not the four parallel exercises by Ps.-Nicolaus.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The anonymous progymnasmata in John Doxapatres' Homiliae in Aphthonium
- Creators
- Craig A Gibson
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Vol.102(1), pp.83-94
- DOI
- 10.1515/BYZS.2009.004
- ISSN
- 0007-7704
- eISSN
- 1868-9027
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2009
- Academic Unit
- Classics
- Record Identifier
- 9984186441002771
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