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Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica

Frammenti di declamazioni perdute

Filostrato, Vitae sophistarum 2.4.569

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Abstract

The contribution examines two fragments of declamations attributed to the second century CE rhetorician Antiochus of Aegae and preserved in Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists. Of the texts, which respectively concern a woman who became pregnant after rape and a tyrant killed by the man he had made eunuch, the relationship to the themes and conventions of scholastic rhetoric is investigated on the one hand, and on the other hand the connections with the broader horizon of Greco-Roman culture of the imperial age.


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Presentato: 18 Febbraio 2025 | Accettato: 08 Agosto 2025 | Pubblicato 17 Dicembre 2025 | Lingua: it

Keywords TyrantAntiochus of AegaePhilostratusRaped girlDeclamation