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The Dynamics of Rhetorical
Performances in Late Antiquity
This book argues that narrations of rhetorical performances in late
antique literature can be interpreted as a reflection of the ongoing
debates of the time. Competition among cultural elites, strategies of
self-presentation and the making of religious orthodoxy often took
the shape of narrations of rhetorical performances in which comments
on the display of oratorical skills also incorporated moral and ethical
judgments about the performer. Using texts from late antique authors
(in particular, Themistius, Synesius of Cyrene and Libanius of Antioch),
this book proposes that this type of narrative should be understood as
a valuable way to decipher the cultural and religious landscape of the
fourth century AD. The volume pays particular attention to narrations
of deficient rhetorical deliveries, arguing that the accounts of flaws
and mistakes in oratorical displays and rhetorical performances reveal
how late antique literature echoed the concerns of the time. Criticisms
of deficient deliveries in different speaking occasions (declamations,
public speeches, oratorical
agones,
school exercises, sermons) were
often disguised as accusations of practicing magic, heresy or cultural
apostasy. A close reading of the sources shows that these oratorical
deficiencies hid struggles over religious, cultural and political issues.
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
(Ph.D. 2006) is Lecturer in the Department
of Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain. He has been an
Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and
Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, UK (2006–2009), and was
fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., US (2014–
2015). His main research interests include Greek Imperial literature and
the impact of rhetoric in the creation of cultural and religious identities in
Late Antiquity. He has edited the volumes
The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late
Antiquity: From Performance to Exegesis
(2013) and
Rhetorical Strategies
in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts, and Interpretation
(2017).
The Dynamics of Rhetorical
Performances in Late Antiquity
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
First published 2019
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J., 1978– author.
Title: The dynamics of rhetorical performances in late antiquity / Alberto
J. Quiroga Puertas.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018028644 | ISBN 9781472474599 (hardback : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781315615776 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Rhetoric, Ancient. | Performance in literature. |
Rhetorical criticism—Rome. | Libanius—Criticism and interpretation.
Classification: LCC PA6085 .Q57 2018 | DDC 808.5/109—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018028644
ISBN: 978-1-4724-7459-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-61577-6 (ebk)
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