Project MUSE®: Rhetorica - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Rhetorica.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 15 (1997) through current issueLatest Articles: RhetoricaTWOProject MUSE®Rhetorica1533-85410734-8584Latest articles in Rhetorica. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Declamationes maiores and their Humanistic Reception: Calderini and Poliziano in Dialogue with Valla
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985667
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The Declamationes maiores, a sylloge of nineteen mock-forensic speeches for fictitious cases, are the only fully elaborated controversiae (or causae) to have survived from the ancient Latin-speaking world.1 Despite being spurious and of uncertain date, they were attributed to Quintilian from the earliest known authorial attestations in late antiquity.2 Unlike Quintilian's Institutio oratoria,3 the pseudo-Quintilianic Declamationes maiores were widely known in the Middle Ages as early as the 10th century4 and became objects of particular interest to humanists between the 14th and 15th centuries.5Interest in the declamatio as a genre spread among humanists, starting with Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406).6 Furthermore
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/854/image/coversmallThe Declamationes maiores and their Humanistic Reception: Calderini and Poliziano in Dialogue with Valla2026-03-24text/htmlen-USThe Declamationes maiores and their Humanistic Reception: Calderini and Poliziano in Dialogue with Valla2026-03-242026TWOProject MUSE®2070842026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-24The Daimonion of Isocrates: Anti-Socratic Polemics and the Power of Politikoi Logoi in the Philippos
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985668
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In the epilogue to his deliberative speech Philippos, composed in 346 BCE, little more than a year after Plato's death, Isocrates attributes his strategic plan—to make Philip II of Macedon the guarantor of a general peace among the Greek poleis and to win him as leader of a Panhellenic campaign against the Persian Empire—to a divine prompting, the daimonion.1
Ταῦτ' οὖν ἐξετάσας ἅπαντα καὶ διελθὼν πρὸς αὑτὸν, ἢν μέν τι τῶν εἰρημένων ᾖ μαλακώτερον ἢ καταδεέστερον, αἰτιῶ τὴν ἡλικίαν τὴν ἐμὴν ᾗ δικαίως ἂν ἅπαντες συγγνώμην ἔχοιεν· ἢν δ' ὅμοια τοῖς πρότερον διαδεδομένοις, νομίζειν αὐτὰ χρὴ μὴ τὸ γῆρας τοὐμὸν εὑρεῖν ἀλλὰ τὸ δαιμόνιον ὑποβαλεῖν, οὐκ ἐμοῦ φροντίζον, ἀλλὰ τῆς Ἑλλάδος κηδόμενον καὶ βουλόμενον ταύτην τε τῶν
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/854/image/coversmallThe Daimonion of Isocrates: Anti-Socratic Polemics and the Power of Politikoi Logoi in the Philippos2026-03-24text/htmlen-USThe Daimonion of Isocrates: Anti-Socratic Polemics and the Power of Politikoi Logoi in the Philippos2026-03-242026TWOProject MUSE®1058712026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-24Foreign Hetairai, Deceitful Rhetoricians, Opportunist Phaselites: The Construction of Metic Ēthos in Forensic Narratives in the Demosthenic Corpus
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985669
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In Rhetoric,1 ēthos, "moral character," one of the artful proofs of persuasion for Aristotle, is directly and explicitly connected with narrative (diēgēsis). Aristotle advises that forensic narrative ought to be revealing of ēthos,2 by making deliberative choice (προαίρεσιν) clear: "what the character is on the basis of what sort of choice [has been made …] Other ethical indications are attributes of each character."3 Aristotle4 advises that one must state everything that would make the facts clear, or create the belief that they have happened, or that they are as important as one wishes to make them. Furthermore, the narrative5 should draw on what is emotional, and its content should include what is especially
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/854/image/coversmallForeign Hetairai, Deceitful Rhetoricians, Opportunist Phaselites: The Construction of Metic Ēthos in Forensic Narratives in the Demosthenic Corpus2026-03-24text/htmlen-USForeign Hetairai, Deceitful Rhetoricians, Opportunist Phaselites: The Construction of Metic Ēthos in Forensic Narratives in the Demosthenic Corpus2026-03-242026TWOProject MUSE®1651772026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-24A Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford: Treatises of the Oxford Rhetoricians, 1364-ca.1435 by Martin Camargo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985670
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Martin Camargo's A Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford is a comprehensive, rigorous, and readable study of the "unprecedented effort to produce new treatises on rhetoric at Oxford" (n.p.) between 1364 and roughly 1435. The book deftly synthesizes manuscript evidence, teaching practice, and university history into a nuanced account of the culture at Oxford that led to this brief but important flourishing of Anglo-Latin rhetoric in England. This interdisciplinary volume offers much to scholars interested in rhetoric, educational history, organizational culture, and late medieval poetry.Camargo first alerted audiences to the titular renaissance in two important 2012 essays focusing on the late medieval
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/854/image/coversmallA Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford: Treatises of the Oxford Rhetoricians, 1364-ca.1435 by Martin Camargo (review)2026-03-24text/htmlen-USA Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford: Treatises of the Oxford Rhetoricians, 1364-ca.1435 by Martin Camargo (review)2026-03-242026TWOProject MUSE®157532026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-24Addresses of Contributors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985671
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Manuel Mañas NúñezFacultad de Filosofía y LetrasUniversidad de ExtremaduraAv. de las Letras, s/n,10003 CáceresEspañammanas@unex.esLorenzo VespoliDepartment of Classical PhilologyJustus-Liebig-Universität GießenOtto-Behaghel-Straße 10 / Haus G35394 GießenDeutschlandlorenzo.vespoli@libero.itTobias HirschDepartment of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesUniversity of Technology Nuremberg (UTN)Dr.-Luise-Herzberg-Straße 490461 NurembergDeutschlandtobias.hirsch@utn.deIfigeneia GiannadakiDepartment of ClassicsDauer Hall, Rm. 125P.O. Box 117435University of FloridaGainesville, FL 32611USAgiannadaki.if@ufl.eduJoseph Turner315 Bingham HumanitiesUniversity of LouisvilleLouisville, KY
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/854/image/coversmallAddresses of Contributors2026-03-24text/htmlen-USAddresses of Contributors2026-03-242026TWOProject MUSE®26762026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-24Los Comentarios In Topica Ciceronis de Sebastián Fox Morcillo
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985673
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Los Topica de Cicerón, aun siendo considerados, como las Partitiones, una obra menor dentro de los escritos retóricos ciceronianos, tuvieron una importancia decisiva en la tradición lógica y retórica occidental.1 Y es que este opúsculo supone la sistematización teórica de la inventio, uno de los officia oratoris, y su aplicación directa al campo del derecho, viniendo así a llenar con la doctrina filosófica académico-peripatética2 el vacío que había al respecto en las escuelas de los rétores, que habían ignorado estos preceptos sobre los lugares comunes de donde el orador podía extraer los argumentos necesarios para sus planteamientos. Cicerón, en efecto, recurre a conceptos y contenidos filosóficos para sustentar
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/854/image/coversmallLos Comentarios In Topica Ciceronis de Sebastián Fox Morcillo2026-03-24text/htmlen-USLos Comentarios In Topica Ciceronis de Sebastián Fox Morcillo2026-03-242026TWOProject MUSE®1600122026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-24