Propertius and Rhetoric
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20073863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tobias Reinhardt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 199-216 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion to Propertius (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047404835_010 |
| OpenAlex | W862302537 |
| ISBN | 9789047404835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter suggests ways of looking at Propertius through the eyes of a student of rhetoric, highlighting in the process how the issue of rhetoric is bound up with aspects of Propertius that have received more attention. It sets out a few background considerations first, then explains the author's criteria, and later proceeds to the discussion of the evidence. Propertius does not seem as obviously a rhetorical poet as his fellow elegist Ovid. The evidence has been observed by Trankle (1960) 143-49 that the situations in which Propertius' elegies are spoken are often in some sense open and undecided, thus creating the scope for an attempt to influence a person addressed. Propertius 1.2 is the first sustained attempt at persuasion: the speaker addresses Cynthia and tries to prevent her from using cosmetic help to enhance her beauty, ostensibly because that would make her needlessly attractive for other men. Keywords: Cynthia; Ovid; Propertius; rhetoric; Trankle
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Linguistics · Literature · Persuasion · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |