Rhetorica Jan 2000

The Intended Public of Demetrius’s On Style: The Place of the Treatise in the Hellenistic Educational System

Dirk M. Schenkeveld

Abstract

On Style, written by a certain Demetrius probably in the first century B.C., is an important witness to the rhetorical education of the third/second centuries B.C. It is a matter of long scholarly debate whether Demetrius intended his treatise to be a handbook of rhetoric or a work of literary criticism. Here it is argued that the public Demetrius writes his book for are pupils who have done the preliminary courses in rhetoric and have learnt to write progymnasmata. They now enter the final course on rhetoric and will compose the more difficult exercises, commonly termed declamationes.

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Rhetorica
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2000-01-01
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10.1353/rht.2000.0024
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