This paper discusses the speech of Hydaspes in Aithiopika 10.16, in which he voices his intention to sacrifice his daughter, but in terms that encourage his audience to prevent the sacrifice. Heliodoros’ presentation of this speech is characteristically duplicitous: at first the narrator suggests that Hydaspes genuinely intends to proceed, but later reveals, ambiguously, that he had subverted his own speech to achieve a purpose opposite to the ostensidle one. This contradiction is analysed in relation to character, fictional audience and reader, with the conclusion that the reader is intended to reproduce within himself the response of the Ethiopian people to the king’s rhetorical trope. This type of speech, which means the opposite of what...
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This paper discusses the speech of Hydaspes in Aithiopika 10.16, in which he voices his intention to...
Appearance and concealment : the role of the speeches in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War Thucydides p...
In this communication two types of “secret” speech are placed in parallel: the interior discussions ...
Cette thèse est consacrée à l’insertion des discours directs dans les Histoires d’Hérodote, et notam...
For the Ethiopians in Heliodorus, the ambiguity of the relationship between men and gods ends with u...
Three speeches are presented here, each of which brings a distinct view of the gods, their validity ...
Staging Seneca's Trojans enables one to arbitrate the struggle between the dramatist and his creatur...
International audienceThe seemingly excessive position of the discourses within the Roman Antiquitie...
The present paper is a study of the maxims used by the hero in the seven surviving plays of Sophocle...
The intent of this contribution is to approach the text of the Ethiopian Story through the rhetorica...
La fable des poissons de Cyrus (Hérodote, 1, 141): son origine et sa fonction dans l'économie des Hi...
Emperor Julian’s orations and letters allow to study in a vivid way the link which exists between rh...
How are we to interpret the apparent conflict between Helen and Menelaus that arises in Odyssey, IV,...
Agathe Roman, Choosing the dialogue form: the Melian dialogue (Thuc. V.85-113), DHA 33/1, 2007, 9-22...
Dos Cantos 6 a 13 da Odisseia, Homero narra a estada de Odisseu em Esquéria, a terra dos feácios. Du...
This paper discusses the speech of Hydaspes in Aithiopika 10.16, in which he voices his intention to...
Appearance and concealment : the role of the speeches in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War Thucydides p...
In this communication two types of “secret” speech are placed in parallel: the interior discussions ...
Cette thèse est consacrée à l’insertion des discours directs dans les Histoires d’Hérodote, et notam...
For the Ethiopians in Heliodorus, the ambiguity of the relationship between men and gods ends with u...
Three speeches are presented here, each of which brings a distinct view of the gods, their validity ...
Staging Seneca's Trojans enables one to arbitrate the struggle between the dramatist and his creatur...
International audienceThe seemingly excessive position of the discourses within the Roman Antiquitie...
The present paper is a study of the maxims used by the hero in the seven surviving plays of Sophocle...
The intent of this contribution is to approach the text of the Ethiopian Story through the rhetorica...
La fable des poissons de Cyrus (Hérodote, 1, 141): son origine et sa fonction dans l'économie des Hi...
Emperor Julian’s orations and letters allow to study in a vivid way the link which exists between rh...
How are we to interpret the apparent conflict between Helen and Menelaus that arises in Odyssey, IV,...
Agathe Roman, Choosing the dialogue form: the Melian dialogue (Thuc. V.85-113), DHA 33/1, 2007, 9-22...
Dos Cantos 6 a 13 da Odisseia, Homero narra a estada de Odisseu em Esquéria, a terra dos feácios. Du...