Greek Rhetorics After the Fall of Constantinople: An Introduction

Thomas Conley

doi:10.1353/rht.2000.0010

Rhetorica Jun 2000

Greek Rhetorics After the Fall of Constantinople: An Introduction

Thomas Conley

Abstract

This short paper will sketch the twilight years of Greek rhetorics, roughly from 1500 until just after the Greek War of Independence. This is an area that, like much else in neo-Greek intellectual history, has been sadly ignored in “Western” scholarship. Greek scholars played an important part in the reception of the works of Hermogenes, Longinus, and pseudo-Demetrius in the mid- and late-sixteenth century. But other Greek teachers and scholars at the College of St. Athanasius in Rome, at the University of Padua, at the Flanginian Academy in Venice, and at schools in Bucharest, Jannina, and Constantinople itself continued to add to those traditions with numerous school texts, homiletic handbooks, and some interesting philosophical treatments of rhetoric. Their names (Korydaleus, Skoufos, Mavrokordates, Damodos, and many others) are unknown to most students of the history of rhetoric—a situation this paper will try in its small way to change.

Journal: Rhetorica
Published: 2000-06-01
DOI: 10.1353/rht.2000.0010
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Topics: classical rhetoric rhetorical criticism
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