Frammenti di declamazioni perdute
Filostrato, Vitae sophistarum 2.4.569
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.
Submitted: Feb. 18, 2025 | Accepted: Aug. 8, 2025 | Published Dec. 17, 2025 | Language: it
Keywords Philostratus • Tyrant • Antiochus of Aegae • Raped girl • Declamation
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