Authorship, Rhetoric Canon and Polyphony in Ps-Quintilian’s Major Declamations
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https://doi.org/10.35699/1983-3636..21637Keywords:
declamations, Pseudo-Quintilian, canon, personae, polyphonyAbstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze the context of production of the Major Declamations ascribed to Quintilian, written between I and IV CE. Since the declamatory genre emerged in the Greek-roman world as a school exercise, it is possible to conjugate the theoretical precepts of the Rhetoric education in the Roman Empire with the declamatory practice, identifying in which measure the literary canons recommended in the 10th book of the Institutio oratoria had influence in the construction of the characters from the Major Declamations 14 and 15, objects of our studies. It is also investigated in which subjects had access to education in Rome, the possible practitioners and authors of the declamations, and how these texts manifest, through their characters, different personae and voices, coming from different social backgrounds. This article seeks to demonstrate, however, that the reading of this work cannot guide itself just by the author-function, detaching the production from the historical subjects who composed it. Because it deals with themes such as tensions between rich and poor men, rape, abuse of power and disinheritance, the declamatory genre may be interpreted – at first sight – as a strong tool for social discussion and denunciation. However, considering the context of production and the likely declamators, it is proposed that the declamations at the same time contribute and break with the narratives of power, drawing some possibilities to negotiate identities and allegiances through characters of an established canon.
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