THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ORATOR BY PROEMS OF DEMOSTHENES

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https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v2i3.11548

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Proem. Deliberative. Speech. Metalinguistic. Éthos. Rhetoric.

Abstract

Demosthenes is known as an author of a corpus of isolated proems. If analyzed according to the three means of persuasion (ḗthos, páthos, lógos) of Aristotle's Rhetoric, these proems have metalinguistic character. They show an indirect manifestation of ḗthos when they build a more convenient image of the orator. Comparing the proems ”“ which already develop the subject to be presented on the exposition and on the proofs of Demosthenes' complete discourses ”“ the isolated ones present metalinguistic theme on how to make a proper deliberative speech. This paper intends to show that the isolated proems were probably written with no intentions of being used in future discourses. They can be the orator”Ÿs practice in order to exercise his writing skills or arguments that build his character, as well as showing Demosthenes as a possible rhetoric theorist. This way, instead of contributing only with his discourses, Demosthenes may also have provided us with manuals of models that were typical of Ancient Athens.

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Valesca Scarlat Carvalho da Fonseca, Universidade de Brasília

Graduanda em Letras-Tradução Inglês pela Universidade de Brasília.

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2013-09-03

How to Cite

Fonseca, V. S. C. da. (2013). THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ORATOR BY PROEMS OF DEMOSTHENES. PÓLEMOS – Revista De Estudantes De Filosofia Da Universidade De Brasília, 2(3), 62–79. https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v2i3.11548

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013)

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Dossiê

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