The paper aims to show how a more careful consideration of the "cover text" containing the famous quotation from Duris by Photius (F1) induces to dismiss the canonical theory that the criticism directed by the Samian to Ephorus and Theopompus had historiographical content; instead it should be recognized the character of stilistic comparison related to the earlier writers, with specific reference to technical connotations (and connected effects) of the phrasis. The aphorism from Kleochares of Myrlea quoted by Photius in the same context helps to read the passage from Duris in the light of the ancient stilistic diatribe on the ideal synkrisis between logoi of Demosthenes and those of Isocrates/his alleged pupils, and within the more general antithesis of ancestry peripatetic, between agonistic rhetoric and the one functional to the epideixis.
La critica a Eforo e Teopompo. Nuove prospettive ermeneutiche a proposito del F 1 di Duride di Samo
OTTONE, GABRIELLA
2015-01-01
Abstract
The paper aims to show how a more careful consideration of the "cover text" containing the famous quotation from Duris by Photius (F1) induces to dismiss the canonical theory that the criticism directed by the Samian to Ephorus and Theopompus had historiographical content; instead it should be recognized the character of stilistic comparison related to the earlier writers, with specific reference to technical connotations (and connected effects) of the phrasis. The aphorism from Kleochares of Myrlea quoted by Photius in the same context helps to read the passage from Duris in the light of the ancient stilistic diatribe on the ideal synkrisis between logoi of Demosthenes and those of Isocrates/his alleged pupils, and within the more general antithesis of ancestry peripatetic, between agonistic rhetoric and the one functional to the epideixis.
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