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| Author(s): |
Barbara da Costa e Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2020-03-30 |
| Examining board members: |
José Marcos Mariani de Macedo;
Adriane da Silva Duarte;
Marcos Sidnei Pagotto Euzebio;
Lucia Sano
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| Advisor: | José Marcos Mariani de Macedo |
| Abstract | |
In this thesis a group of advanced school exercises composed in Greek between the fourth and the sixth century AD is studied. These exercises conventionally called \'declamations\' are attributed to two teachers of rhetoric, Libanius and Choricius, who are two of the most well-documented teachers of antiquity. One of the main characteristics of these school texts is the appropriation of literary patterns, themes and characters which go back to classical Athens, especially Athenian Comedy. Taking into consideration the imperial historical background and the performative aspects of school declamation, this study investigates the reception of four comic character-types in Greek declamation in order to clarify the points of contact between the two genres and the operation system of literary mimesis within them. With this work we hope to defend the thesis according to which Greek imperial exercises are not a nostalgic refuge divorced from the Roman reality of the imperial student. They are a powerful locus of construction of identities and a fundamental aspect of daily life in imperial Greece. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/23498-0 - Menander goes to school: comic characters in the declamations of Libanius and Choricius |
| Grantee: | Bárbara da Costa e Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |