Keywords
rhetoric
Troilus
Athanasius
Sopatros
Doxapatres
Maximus
Planudes
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Abstract
The paper deals with the reception of Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric
(Rhet. I 1355b26–27) in several Byzantine commentators of Hermogenes’
and Aphthonius’ treatises. A justification of critical interpretation
of this definition is to be found in the commentaries of Troilus and Athanasius
(4th/5th century) as well as Sopatros (6th century) and Doxapatres
(11th century), Maximus Planudes (13th/14th century) and several anonymous
commentators. The Byzantine tradition has found Aristotle’s definition
of rhetoric to be all too theoretical and insufficiently connected to
practical activity, which Byzantium identified with political life.
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