Rhetoric and praise in the letters of Pliny the Younger

This article discusses, based in the assumptions established by authors like Cicero (De oratore) and Quintilian (Institutio oratoria), how Pliny the Younger uses the epideictic genre in the letter I, 10. It analyzes the textual construction of the praise and the possible purposes of use this kind of...

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Autor: Giesen, Kátia Regina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)
Repositorio:Rónai
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufjf.br:article/23040
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/article/view/23040
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:epideitic genre
letters of Pliny the younger
letter I,10
gênero epidítico
cartas de Plínio, o jovem
carta I,10
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Sumario:This article discusses, based in the assumptions established by authors like Cicero (De oratore) and Quintilian (Institutio oratoria), how Pliny the Younger uses the epideictic genre in the letter I, 10. It analyzes the textual construction of the praise and the possible purposes of use this kind of discourse in epistolary Plinian work. Such use might be related both to an establishment of exemplary virtue profiles as an explanation of the literary field that Pliny participates.