Was Cicero's Audience Aware of How Orpheus Died (Arch. 19)?
Authors:
- Damian Aleksander Pierzak
Abstract
Greek myth in the Speeches remains an insufficiently studied aspect of Cicero’s literary output. Similarly, the mythological exemplum as a part of rhetorical theory has never been carefully examined. The scholarly controversy concerning the connotations carried by the myth of Orpheus in the Pro Archia poeta might be an opportunity to contribute briefly to both subjects in question. The author of the latest edition of the speech has rejected the hypothesis of C.E.W. Steel, who holds that in the text the allusion to the poet’s death can be found. The following study aims above all at supporting the view, according to which the exemplum serves as a reminder of what fate Orpheus met at the hands of the Thracian maenads.
- Record ID
- USL41fafe5c333b4a3ea84af853fd9bf5d5
- Author
- Journal series
- Scripta Classica, ISSN 1732-3509, e-ISSN 2353-9771
- Issue year
- 2015
- Vol
- 12
- Pages
- 75-82
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.40
- Keywords in English
- Cicero, myth, exemplum, Orpheus, Pro Archia
- Handle.net URL
- hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/4730 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- File
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- File: 1
- Was Cicero's Audience Aware of How Orpheus Died (Arch. 19)?, File Pierzak_Was_Ciceros_audience_aware_of_how_Orpheus.pdf / 553 KB
- Pierzak_Was_Ciceros_audience_aware_of_how_Orpheus.pdf
- publication date: 06-02-2024
- Was Cicero's Audience Aware of How Orpheus Died (Arch. 19)?, File Pierzak_Was_Ciceros_audience_aware_of_how_Orpheus.pdf / 553 KB
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- Score (nominal)
- 6
- Score source
- BIBLIOGRAFIA DOROBKU PRACOWNIKÓW UŚ
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://opus.us.edu.pl/info/article/USL41fafe5c333b4a3ea84af853fd9bf5d5/
- URN
urn:uni-kat-prod:USL41fafe5c333b4a3ea84af853fd9bf5d5
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