The Speeches in Appian’s "Mithridateios": A Preliminary Approach
Appian’s Mithridatheioscontains a considerable number of formal speeches, to which others found by the author in his sources could have been added, but he chose not to develop them. Most of these passages relate to the First Mithridatic War, in line with the prominence that Appian attributes to Sull...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/152859 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/152859 https://doi.org/10.17398/1886-9440.18.1 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Appian Mithridateios Mithridates Sulla Pompeius Trogus Apiano Mitrídates Sila Pompeyo Trogo |
| Resumo: | Appian’s Mithridatheioscontains a considerable number of formal speeches, to which others found by the author in his sources could have been added, but he chose not to develop them. Most of these passages relate to the First Mithridatic War, in line with the prominence that Appian attributes to Sulla in the crisis of the Roman Republic. While the Roman general delivers the longest speeches in this work, Mithridates has only three, which also appear notably abbreviated. Very possibly, Pompeius Trogus’ historical workwas the source for the main rhetorical passages. |
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