In his creation of this narrative of friendship featuring the divitis filius and pauperis filius, the declaimer was clearly influenced by cultural and anthropological exemplars of undisputed validity. They range from Seneca’s philosophical paradigm of the sapiens to the military vir fortis and the prototype of the certus amicus. Oxymoronic stans periit specifically characterizes the poor man’s son’s aloofness from the ill-fame attached to gladiators. It also marks his death in battle: scorning the exit offered by the gladiatorial lex pugnandi, he chooses the law for bellica certamina, which offers the only opportunity to display virtus.

220 RHETORICA of the Hamberg Papyrus 128, reasserting Theophrastean authorship, though not without giving due consideration to the reservations of other scholars. Elisabetta Matelli, Teodette di Faselidi, Retore, looks at the surviving titles of the rhetorical work(s), which is made difficult by his close association with Aris­ totle. She concludes tentatively that those titles represent different phases of the same work, and adds, for good measure, that Theodectes regarded it as a parergon compared with the tragic dramas by which he wished to be remembered. Theodectes the tragedian assumes centre stage in the chap­ ter by Andrea Martano, Teodette di Faselide Poeta Tragico: Riflessioni Attorno At Fr. 6 Snell, in which the assumption that Euripides was the only signif­ icant influence on Fourth Century tragedy is questioned, and Agathon is set beside him as a possible source. Martano also discusses problems of the production of Theodectes' plays. Theodectes remains a shadowy figure, es­ pecially since there may have been two of them. Stephen White, Theophrastus and Callisthenes, is concerned with a lost tribute which Theophrastus paid to Alexander's historian. From its scanty remains he assesses the extent to which it embodies the standard topoi of eulogy identified bv Aristotle, which include comparison. In particular, he argues that the philosophical elements in the eulogy centred on the limits placed on a good person's eudainionia when he has to deal with someone who has enjoved an excess of it (in this case Alexander). David Konstan, The Emotion in Aristotle Rhetoric 2.7: Grati­ tude, Not Kindness, discusses the different interpretations of charis, and argues correctly that it is not an emotion but a disposition to do something specific, an act of kindness. His chapter also trawls through a wide sea of literature, and thereby performs the useful service of illustrating how difficult the word is to translate in all its occurrences. One can be sure that Bill Fortenbaugh has been gratified to be presented with these essays, which not only build on the work in which he has been closely involved, but both pursue and suggest new lines of research in rhetorical studies. Stephen Usher Royal Holloway, University of London Lucia Calboli Montefusco, ed., Declamation. Proceedings of the Se­ minars held at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Bologna (February-March, 2006), Papers on Rhetoric VIII. Roma: Herder, 2007, XVIII, 291. Il volume documenta gli incontri seminariali organizzati dalla scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici a Bologna nel 2006 sul tema della declamazione . A Gualtiero Calboli va il grande merito di aver curato l'organizzazione scientifica del seminario interdottorale e di aver raccolto in volume i contributi degli studiosi che hanno caratterizzato la complessa identita cultu- Reviews 221 i dit? dell iniziatix a. Alio stesso Calboli si deve, oltre allarticolata prefazione che apie il \olume (pp. VÍI-XVII1), 1 intervento introduttivo agli incontri (La clamamom tin ntoina, dnitto, letteratura c lógica, pp. 29-56), che indaga sul rapporte tra declamazione e teoría retorica, diritto, letteratura e lógica. Come campo meiitevole di approfondimento viene individuata la sinergia ti a la declamazione, intesa come momento esempliticativo e applicativo, e la piecettistica teórica tissata nella tradizione mannalistica. In particolare, nel contribute date dalle declamazioni alio sviluppo e allapplicazione pratica di una sistemática dottrina degli status, Calboli individua la connessione con il diritto. Quanto al rapporte con la letteratura, oltre alla contiguïté temática tra la produzione declamatoria e la commedia attica, viene messo in rilievo il contribute lornito dall attixita declamatoria alla dottrina dei tropi e delle fi­ gure che trovavano nella liberta garantita dall'ambiente scolastico xxn'humus particularmente fertile. Alla polisemia della metafora rappresentata dal termine color in ám­ bito retorico e dedicate il saggio di Lucia Calboli Montefusco (La funzione strategica dei colores nella pratica declamatoria, pp. 157-79). Un'attenzione par­ ticolare viene riservata alia metafora in questione nelle controversie senecane e nella produzione declamatoria pseudoquintilianea, nonché in alcuni passi deWInstitutio oratoria. La scelta del color conferisce alia controversia le caratteristiche di un particolare status, secondo la versione ermagorea della dottrina e della tópica corrispondente. Un'errata interpretazione del color di Seneca risulta fondata su una presunta equivalenza con la μετάθεσις τής αίτιας quale...