Michael Psellos on rhetoric: A translation and commentary on Psellos’ synopsis of Hermogenes

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Jan 2001

Michael Psellos on rhetoric: A translation and commentary on Psellos’ synopsis of Hermogenes

Jeffrey Walker Emory University

Abstract

Abstract Michael Psellos' heretofore untranslated synopsis of Hermogenean rhetoric, Peri Rhêtorikês, composed probably between 1060 and 1067, gives us a window into the state of rhetorical education in late Byzantium. The details of its inclusions, elisions, and amplifications suggest the ways in which Hermogenean rhetoric was understood and taught, at least by one uncommonly talented and influential rhetorician. The text suggests that Psellos may have found the pseudo‐Hennogenic On Invention —rather than On Stases or OnTypes of Style—most useful, most amenable to his efforts to revive an "Aristotelian"; rhetorical philosophy, and most relevant to actual rhetorical practices (including his own).

Journal: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published: 2001-01-01
DOI: 10.1080/02773940109391193
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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