Formes et genres du dialogue antique
By: textes édités par Sandrine Dubel & Sophie Gotteland
Contributors: Université de Bordeaux III; Celtic Conference in Classics (7th : 2012 : Bordeaux, France)
Series: Scripta antiqua -- 71; Scripta antiqua -- 71.
Publisher: Ausonius
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bordeaux
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9782356131263
Subjects: Greek Dialogues; Congresses; History and criticism; Latin Dialogues
Description: "This volume aims to explore the diversity of forms and practices of the ancient dialogue as a genre. As a literary work in its own right, a prose drama, the dialogue was first invented in the Socratic circles of 4th century Athens. The practice was not really theorized before the Hellenistic rhetoricians, but the genre displays a consistent diachrony despite some moments of eclipses. We study here its main transformations in ancient times: the Platonic founding model, its redefinition in specifically Roman terms by Cicero, the "other" model of the Renaissance, and later by Tacitus, and the new syntheses arising out of the effervescence of the imperial period (Athenaeus, Lucian). But the dialogue is also a discursive modality or a specific textual sequence, which this book seeks to explore in its several forms or set figures: narrative strategy for Herodotus' reported speeches; fictions of conversations interrupting the speech in Demosthenes; dialogue with the classics in Plato, Plutarch, and Clement of Alexandria"--
Notes: Part of the proceedings of the 7th Celtic conference in Classics, session "Genres, cadres et formes du dialogue antique", held at the Université de Bordeaux 3, Sept. 5-8, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chiefly in French; 1 contribution in English.