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Alms, alms, alms. Spare me a piece of bread. Spare me your mercy. I am a child so young, so thin, and so ragged. Why are you staring at me? With my eyes I cannot see but I know that you are all staring at me. Why are you whispering to one... more
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      DeclamationSpeech and Oral Communication
Esegesi letteraria e critico testuale della decl. min. pseudoquintilianea 297
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      DeclamationRoman DeclamationGreek and Roman declamation
This is The River.
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Introduction to the volume Reading Roman Declamation - Seneca the Elder (OUP 2020)
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      RhetoricDeclamationSeneca the elderRoman Declamation
La fiction et le vers. Comment les Modernes ont légitimé la rime, et comment, par là même, ils l’ont perdue (1548-1826) Avec cet article, nous avons voulu montrer que la logique aboutissant à la forme privilégiée du théâtre moderne, le... more
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      PoeticsDeclamationQuintilianProsody
1 Alfredo CASAMENTO PATRES NON TANTUM NATURA. L'EXPOSITIO DI MINORI NELLE DECLAMAZIONI IN LINGUA LATINA: IL CASO DI PS. QUINT. DECL. MIN. 278
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      RhetoricDeclamationQuintilianLatin Rhetoric
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Théodora Psychoyou, "De la présence de l’air de cour dans les écrits théoriques du XVIIe siècle : une rhétorique de l’actio", in Poésie, musique et société. L’air de cour en France au XVIIe siècle, éd. Georgie Durosoir, Sprimont, Mardaga,... more
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      RhetoricFrench Baroque MusicBaroque Music17th Century Music
Teatro, letteratura e ricerca si intrecciano indissolubilmente nell’opera e nella vita di Luigi Rasi (1852-1918), direttore della Regia Scuola di Recitazione di Firenze e ultimo esponente di un’illustre tradizione ottocentesca di... more
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      Italian TheatreDeclamationLuigi Rasi
Seneca the Elder is the author of a collection of rhetorical extracts aimed to preserve from oblivion the traces of the most outstanding declaimers of his time. Although he claims to rely exclusively on his memories in composing his... more
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      CiceroDeclamationSeneca the elderLatin Declamation
This paper looks at Roman attitudes to the rich man and the poor man as seen in Roman declamations used to train the Roman elite in rhetoric.
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      DeclamationQuintilianSocial ClassesAncient Roman Rhetoric
illuminare il mondo che esisteva intorno e dentro la Phèdre di Racine nel momento della sua nascita. La ricerca si è concentrata, oltre che sul teatro francese del XVII secolo in generale, sull'aspetto performativo di Phèdre, e dunque... more
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      DeclamationComédie-FrançaiseTeatroJean Racine
Oratory and rhetoric are the most appropriate fields to test the lexical specialization of the verbs declamo and recito: declamo describes preparatory exercises of oratory itself; on the opposite hand, recito is referred to the reading of... more
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      ClassicsLatin LiteratureRhetoricOratory
Notice: Chronicle of Higher Education Oct. 17, 2008. Reviews: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.07.59 [J. Jacobs]; Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010) 583–86 [S. Dillon]; Journal of Roman Studies 101 (2011) 255–57 [C. Damon];... more
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      SociologyClassical ArchaeologyLatin LiteratureRoman History
Il tiranno nelle declamazioni di scuola in lingua latina, in "Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino", Serie V, vol. IX, 1985, pp. 1-141
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      Latin LiteratureDeclamationTyranny
Riddle performance acts when translated from language to another may lose their riddle texture unless such translations takes into consideration the verbal and non verbal features of performance. In this record, I endeavour to document... more
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      HistoryPsychoanalysisFolkloreComparative Politics
Numero speciale della rivista dedicato alla declamazione latina: 'Eloquentiae itinera. Declamazione e cultura letteraria a Roma in età imperiale', a cura di A. Casamento, D. van Mal-Maeder, L. Pasetti
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      DeclamationGreek and Roman declamationDeclamationes maioresMajor declamations
The riddle is one of the least studied genres of oral literature and with this book I bring to your desk a recording of riddle act with active audiences. By focusing on the performer of the riddle, this study departs from earlier studies... more
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      SociologyPsychologyAfrican StudiesCommunication
This paper aims to study the close interconnection between prosodic processes and musical composition in italian opera. The author uses as his starting point "Il conte ugolino" by Gaetano Donizetti (from Dante's Commedia).
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      MusicologyDante StudiesItalian LiteratureDeclamation
Analisi di alcuni stilemi tipici della declamazione latina (e greca)
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      RhetoricDeclamationSeneca the elderAncient Roman Rhetoric
Questa opera è protetta dalla Legge sul diritto d'autore (http://www.liguori.it/areadownload/LeggeDirittoAutore.pdf). L'utilizzo del libro elettronico costituisce accettazione dei termini e delle condizioni stabilite nel Contratto di... more
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      DeclamationSeneca the elderRoman DeclamationCalpurnius Flaccus
This study of the genesis of Claude Debussy’s mélodies on poems by Paul Verlaine, which present different versions and several modifications, reveals the importance of the place granted to the adequacy between music and textual... more
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      DeclamationProsodyPoetry and MusicClaude Debussy
I diritti di traduzione e di adattamento, totale o parziale, con qualsiasi mezzo sono riservati per tutti i Paesi. È vietata la riproduzione parziale, compresa la fotocopia, anche ad uso interno o didattico, non autorizzata.
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      Rhetoric (Languages and Linguistics)RhetoricDeclamationQuintilian
The focus of this paper is the use of arguments based on nature in Roman declamation, taking into account both the concept of natural law in general and the specific use of the expressions iura and leges naturae: I will try to outline... more
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      Natural LawStoicismDeclamationSeneca the elder
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      DeclamationLatin DeclamationRoman DeclamationGreek and Roman declamation
Il vascello del parricida. Un tema declamatorio tra mito e retorica (Seneca, Controversiae, 7, 1) 0. Il motivo dei rapporti fra mito e declamazione di scuola è stato oggetto in tempi recenti di ripetuta attenzione da parte degli studiosi:... more
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      DeclamationSeneca the elderLatin Declamation
An extended footnote to Concert Song and Concert Speech around 1800 (2017). Gustav Anton von Seckendorff, author of 'Vorlesungen über Deklamation und Mimik' (1816), is among the many early nineteenth-century theorists of declamation the... more
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      German StudiesMusic HistoryTheatre HistoryNineteenth Century Studies
This paper proposes a new synthetic account of the presence of Cicero as both character and source in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile. Lucan's treatment is derived primarily from Virgil's technique for creating intertextually complex characters,... more
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      CiceroLatin EpicLucanDeclamation
A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress.
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      DeclamationRoman SatireSatireJuvenal
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      RhetoricDeclamationSeneca the elderLatin Declamation
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      DeclamationSeneca the elder
Da ormai un ventennio, il corpus di declamazioni in lingua latina è fatto oggetto di una larga riconsiderazione all'interno di un interesse più ampio per le pratiche connesse alla retorica di scuola nella cultura greco-romana 2 . Tale... more
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      SenecaDeclamationSeneca the elderSeneca's Tragedies
The paper focuses on Seneca the Elder's Controversia 10,5. The text concerns the charge to the painter Parrhasius of torturing to death an Olyntian slave that had served as a model of a Prometheus. The interests of declaimers highlight... more
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      DeclamationLatin RhetoricSeneca the elderRoman Declamation
Sulla nozione di color e crwma nella retorica della prima età imperiale *
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      Classical rhetoricCiceroPseudo-DionysiusDeclamation
CENTRO DI STUDI SULLA FORTUNA DELL’ANTICO “EMANUELE NARDUCCI” 16° Giornata di Studi ASPETTI DELLA FORTUNA DELL’ANTICO NELLA CULTURA EUROPEA VENERDÌ 15 MARZO 2019 Convento dell’Annunziata, Baia del Silenzio - Sestri Levante Ore... more
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      Greek TragedyReception StudiesAudience and Reception StudiesClassical philology
Introduzione: tra diritto, retorica e letteratura | 1 Gernot Krapinger Die Grabverletzung in den Declamationes minores | 11 Biagio Santorelli Il denaro negato. Casi di infitiatio depositi nelle Declamazioni minori | 31 Giuseppe Dimatteo... more
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      RhetoricRoman LawDeclamationRoman Declamation
Edited and compiled by Naomi Taylor, this booklet summarizes the two day mini-festival held in York (UK) on July 3-4, 2015. Included are detailed notes for presentations and performances as well as a general introduction by Ronald... more
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      Composition and RhetoricMusic and LanguageWilliam Butler YeatsComposition (Music)
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      RhetoricDeclamationQuintilianLatin Declamation
Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. This volume places the literariness of Roman declamation into the spotlight by... more
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      DeclamationLatin RhetoricSeneca the elderLatin Declamation
This paper focuses on the extant roman declamations featuring characters of ‘addicti’, i.e. free-born roman citizens not able to pay back a debt and consequently “assigned” to their creditors. A comparison with the extant legal texts... more
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      DeclamationRoman DeclamationCalpurnius FlaccusGreek and Roman declamation
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      CommunicationAngerMarketsMasculinity
The present article offers a large-scale survey of the Latin declamations dealing with parricide. Because of the importance of the father/son relationship in Roman culture, the topic of parricide is widespread, being attested in both... more
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      DeclamationQuintilianSeneca the elderAncient Roman Rhetoric
This paper offers a new interpretation of a vexed passage in the pseudo-Quintilianic Major declamation 9. In chapter 19, the speaker describes himself as a ‘debitor delicatus’, referring to his attitude towards a friend who rescued him at... more
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      RhetoricDeclamationQuintilianRoman Declamation
For almost six centuries the culmination of any young Roman citizen’s education was the school of rhetoric: here, under the guidance of a professional rhetorician, he would spend his teenage years learning how to devise and deliver... more
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      Disability StudiesBlindnessDeclamationSeneca the elder
The present study examines declamatory quotations appearing in the collection of the elder Seneca (Contr. 10.4), focusing in particular on close similarities between the quotations of eighteen different speakers. Similarity between... more
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      Latin LiteratureRhetoricLanguage and Social InteractionDeclamation
This article addresses some interpretative issues concerning the text of decl. 292. In paragraph 1 (sermo), the obscure way in which the Master faces the problem of the status confirms the dependence from Quintilian’s Institutio, where... more
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      DeclamationLatin DeclamationGreek and Roman declamationSenecan tragedy, Latin declamation
This dissertation aims to explore the role of rhetoric in the transformation and reinvention of Roman epic, through extensive analyses of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Lucan's Bellum Civile. These works stand out from other Roman epics due to... more
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      RhetoricLatin EpicLucanOvid
Philip Hardie has recently highlighted the prominence and significance of fama in Latin Literature. His wide-ranging study covers authors such as Livy, Tacitus and Pliny and establishes the workings of fama in prose texts. ¹ This chapter... more
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      DeclamationQuintilianAncient Roman Rhetoricpseudo-Quintilianus
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      Ancient Greek RhetoricDeclamationHellenistic poetryGreek Declamation
P.Lond. Lit. 138 (1st century AD) contains six anonymous rhetorical compositions. The second of them is a declamation concerning an accusation of theft levelled against a man who stole his own money deposited in a friend's field. The text... more
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      Greek LiteratureTextual CriticismClassical rhetoricClassical philology