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Speaking to the people in theory and action : Plutarch’s political precepts and Dio of Prusa’s assembly speeches
| العنوان: | Speaking to the people in theory and action : Plutarch’s political precepts and Dio of Prusa’s assembly speeches |
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| المؤلفون: | Oppeneer, Thierry |
| المساهمون: | Jażdżewska, Katarzyna, Doroszewski, Filip |
| المصدر: | Plutarch and his contemporaries : sharing the Roman Empire ; ISSN: 2451-8328 ; ISBN: 9789004687295 ; ISBN: 9789004687301 |
| بيانات النشر: | Brill |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Ghent University Academic Bibliography |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Languages and Literatures, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Political Precepts, Rhetoric, Demos |
| الوصف: | This chapter explores the overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and Dio of Prusa with regard to Roman-era assembly politics. More precisely, it compares Plutarch’s advice on demegoric rhetoric, articulated in the Political precepts (§5-9), to the rhetorical strategies employed by Dio of Prusa in the speeches addressed to the assembly of his native city (Orr. 40, 43-48, 51). While the Political precepts contains the advice of one elite politician to the other, Dio’s orations were designed to persuade the city’s dēmos gathered in the assembly. These works thus provide us with two radically different perspectives on the phenomenon of popular politics, which, as recent studies have shown, still constituted a vital aspect of civic life in the imperial period. A comparison between the Political precepts and Dio’s assembly speeches can be mutually illuminating: while Plutarch’s advice helps us better understand the strategies behind Dio’s rhetoric, the assembly speeches show how Plutarch’s rhetorical precepts could be put into practice. This comparison, moreover, supports Plutarch’s claims about the practical orientation and usefulness of his advice, which have been called into question by scholarship. The conclusions of this paper thus give further reason to consider Plutarch not only as a philosopher or moralist but also as someone whose works actively shaped the political life of his time. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book part |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-90-04-68729-5 978-90-04-68730-1 90-04-68729-7 90-04-68730-0 |
| Relation: | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01HDKENC3HZR1PDBNFTA0Z8APE; http://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687301_004; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01HDKENC3HZR1PDBNFTA0Z8APE/file/01HDKFAVABEN1QHHEK8A8EMCGT |
| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004687301_004 |
| الاتاحة: | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01HDKENC3HZR1PDBNFTA0Z8APE http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HDKENC3HZR1PDBNFTA0Z8APE https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687301_004 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01HDKENC3HZR1PDBNFTA0Z8APE/file/01HDKFAVABEN1QHHEK8A8EMCGT |
| Rights: | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) ; info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.7E71E2EC |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| ردمك: | 9789004687295 9789004687301 9004687297 9004687300 |
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| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004687301_004 |