Declamation and New Comedy: comic stereotypes of miser old men in Greek rhetorical exercises
Keywords:
rhetoric, New Comedy, declamation, Libanius, ChoriciusAbstract
In this paper I intend to highlight a few points of connection between the characterization of the miser old men in New Comedy and in Greek declamations, which are Libanius’ and Choricius’. The similarities are vast and easily recognizable. There is enough evidence to confirm that Menander was an author whose work was read and imitated in the schools of rhetoric: many testimonia, like Quintilian and Dio Chrysostomus, confirm this assertion. Therefore, this paper investigates the reasons which compelled declaimers to alude to Menander in such a deliberatively way.
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