Epideictic literature

Theodore Chalon Burgess

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EpiDEiCTic Literature
A DISSERTATION
SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTIES OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF ARTS,
LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE, IN CANDIDACY FOR THE
degree of doctor of philosophy
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By Theodore C. Burgess.
followingWhile the pages attempt to give a general survey
literature, it is withof epideictic certain necessary limitations.
A full discussion of this important and extensive branch in all
its phases and relations is far too large a theme for a single
paper. I have found myself compelled to treat the subject in
many parts in a cursory manner and to make what may be
regarded as a somewhat arbitrary choice among the topics which
it presents : to develop some of its features in considerable detail
and merely to touch upon others in themselves of interest and
importance. The existence of monographs on some phases of
the subject has caused these to be passed over more lightly. It
has seemed unnecessary, for instance, to treat anew the TroXtrt/co?
Tr/ooT/oeTrrt/co? Xo'709,X,o709, consolations, the and some other single
features which have been amply discussed by others. The absence
of a special presentation of the Sophists and the irpoyvfipdcrfiaTa
(see 108, n. may seem the most considerable omission. Thesep. 1)
influential factors in epideictic history are not discussed in a
separate chapter, because the most important names naturally
individuals, and becauseenter here and there as the history of
has been amply treated.these movements as a whole The early
extremes of praise andSophists have suffered the blame. In
in which they were held asplace of the disrespect a class has
tendency to magnify theircome at the present day a influence.
starts with Grote's notable chapterThe modern discussion and
argumentation which has grown from it.'the extended Dis-
important Sophistic revival which began incussions of the the
Philology, IV 288, and'See Sidgwick, Journal of (1873), V (1874), 66;
continues Grote's defense and cites other writers. also statementshe Cf.
references in the histories of Greek literature, notably Christand (3d ed.),
Croiset, Bernhardy; Gomperz, Oriechische Denker; Dummler, Prolegomena
zu Platon's Staat.
89CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY90 STUDIES IN
century A. D., and is called the New Sophistic,''first and second
numerous.'lare very
Among the most interesting features of the subject are the
of the epideictic influence and the relations of otherextent
branches of literature to this form of oratory. The chapters on
Poetry, History, and Philosophy are written from this point of
sketches,view, but are necessarily mere which may be made
more complete at some future time in separate papers.
I have adopted the following order of topics : an intro-
epideictic literature and itsductory statement ; general char-
word eTriBeiKvufjLtacteristics the uses of the in Isocrates and;
ofPlato; Isocrates' conception oratory; a brief sketch of epi-
oratory; the general rhetorial treatment of this depart-deictic
of oratory, especially in Menanderment and Dionysius of
withHalicarnassus, the main characteristics of each of the
of epideicticseparate forms speech recognized by these rhe-
—toricians a few of these forms the /Sao-tXt/co? X0709
; as a special
development of the iyKcofiiov of a person, the yevedXiuKOf; Xo'709,
i7nTd(f)io<i, and TrapdSo^a iyKM/xca chosenthe —are for more detailed
consideration in separate chapters. These are selected because of
their individual importance and because they well illustrate the
range of epideictic literature. Although much has been written
on the subject of the e7rtTa<^to«? , it is difficult to find even the
familiar facts about this important form in a single paper, and
' The literature of the subject may be found Christ, see indexin ; Croiset.
547 ff. ; Bernhardy, I, et Compare alsoV (1900), 509, passim. W. Schmid,
Ueber den kulturgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang und die Bedeutung der
griechischen Renaissance in der Romerzeit (Leipzig, ; H. von1898) Arnim,
"Leben und Werke des Dio von Prusa (Berlin, ; E. Rhode, Griechische1898)
Sophistik der Kaiserzeit," in Der griechische 310 (2d ed., Leipzig,Roman,
; E. Norden, Antike Kunstprosa (Leipzig, see index ; W. Schmid,1900) 1898),
Der Atticismus in seinen Hauptvertretern (Stuttgart, ; Blass, Attische1887)
Beredsamkeit, see index ; Baumgart, Aelius Aristides als Reprdsentant der
sophistischen Rhetorik d. ziveiten Jahrh. der Kaiserzeit (Leipzig, 1874);
Kaibel, "Dionysius v. Halicarnassus u. die Sophistik," Hermes, XX (1885),
497-51.3; Wilamowitz, "Asianismus u. Atticismus," Hermes, XXXV (1900),
16. also numerous treatises on individual Sophists, e. for Philos-Cf. g.,
tratus, Kayser's Introduction; Cobet, "Ad Philostrati Vitas Sophistaruiii et
Heroica," Mnemosyne, I (1873), 209-32; Volkmann. "Philostratea," Jahrh. f.
LXXXlPhil., (1860), 702.