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Prōtopapá-Marnélī, María. "La rhétorique des stoïciens." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040018.
Full textThis research is divided into three parts, 1st part: justification of the particular place that rhetoric holds in stoic philosophy, namely, the reasons for which the stoics regard rhetoric together with dialectic, as part of logic. Then the worth of voice and lecta (speaking techniques) are emphasized and at the same time, the difference between rhetoric and dialectic is clearly formulated. 2nd part: the various speaking techniques which the sage orator makes use of are pointed out. After that, the contribution of geometric forms in the teaching of philosophy is explained as well the contribution of analogies and the homoiomata used by Ariston of Chios. Finally, the significance of the fact that the stoic speaks in the second person singular which constitutes a stoic way (topos) is explained. 3rd part: the significance which the stoics attribute to poetry and the poem as a particular kind of rhetoric is presented in detail as well as their contribution in teaching. A comparison between platonic and stoic philosophy is attempted as regards the poem while, at the same time, Posidonius' definition of poetry and the poem is presented in detail. The particular importance of sound and music in poetry is then examined as well as their positive or negative influence in the psychology of the audience. After that, an analysis of Diogenes' of Babylon about music, on the same subject is attempted. The end of the third part deals the production of the stoics in poetry, as regards the quality of their work. The hymn to Zeus by Kleanthes is also analyzed and an attempt to place it temporally is carried out through a comparison to Aratos' invocation to Zeus (phaenomena 1-18). There is also a bibliography and an index of ancient, medieval and modern writers
Pepe, Cristina. "La classification des genres du discours dans la rhétorique antique." Strasbourg, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011STRA1004.
Full textChomarat, Catherine. "Le sophiste, le rhéteur, le critique et le peintre : pour une archéologie rhétoricienne des modèles littéraires." Paris, EHESS, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993EHES0332.
Full textThis research is focused on the general agreement around m. Blanchot's proposition who says that literature goes to its disappearance. According with r. Barthes, this thesis oppose an historical approche which pretends that it wouldn't be a disappearance of literature, but it would be a connection between the "political signification of literature" and "the usury of the representatif form of narration". This usury is explained on the basis of the pre-eminence of the pictural model -the description gives evidence of this-, over the paradigm of the body - which concerns the enonciation. This pre-eminence of the pictural could be progressive from the first to the second sophistic, and could affirm itself with balzac. Later, in the twentieth century it could disappear. This thesis infers that any question about the situation of literature must take in account the reasons why modernity is fascinated by m. Blanchot's theory. Then, this work reduces the disappearance of literature to the history, using an examination of the rhetoric and poetic treatises
Barbaud, Thierry. "Rhétorique et poétique chez Catulle." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040219.
Full textThe Catullus' style results from an essentially formal and structural research, in the organization of the book as well as in the accurate patterns of sentences. First, the disposition (ordo) reveals through different proceedings (thematic cycles, formulary repetitions, narrative digressions) essential notions: poetic time and memory, life and myth, reason and passion, skillful play and sincerity. Then we find a sophisticated style of natural clearness where simple and complex manners are interwoven. In a second approach, the analysis of lexical (collocatio uerborum) and musical art (compositio), syntactical and logical orders (probatio) allowed us to bear out these stylistical trends of Catullus : the ordering of the words is the imitation of actions and inmost thoughts, simultaneously "realistic" and symbolic, picture of the love-scenario ; the measure of the sentences is obtained with expressive stylization and emphatic exuberance, and the pathos stands out against the demonstrative clearness and the irony, so that the catullian ambiguity is easy to read through the original mingling of language-levels leading to a "mixed" style. In fact, Catullus carries out an experiment of formal order and of rhetorical figures: he wants to find his ethics by the way of artistic writing, between the epicurean pleasure of gracious seduction (uenustas) and the scrupulous and thorough "ritual" of poetical creation (pietas) by which alexandrinism is aggravated on the one hand, on the other hand refined and finally exhausted
Mory, Aude. "Rhétorique et droit chez Cicéron." Paris 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA020071.
Full textKis-Fajardy, Agnès. "Voix et gestes, harmonie et dysharmonie : théories et pratiques dans la rhétorique et la tragédie latines." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040009.
Full textBy studying the expressiveness of the human body in Latin rhetoric and tragedies, our goal was not to compile tedious lists of intonations and gestures, but rather to return to the primary causes of a nonarbitrary semantics, deeply rooted in the very nature of the soul : hence the importance of philosophy in this study. Indeed, rhetoric exaltes the eloquence of both voice and the gestures, whereas Roman tragedies stage a suffering and even dismembered body. And yet, in both cases, their suggestive power remains the same : far from being confined to the narrow limits of the human body, that expressiveness becomes the living reflection of the human soul in its two dimensions, which are often opposed : unerring reason and errant passions, ever inclined to secede violently. A living metaphor for a microcosm (the soul), the expressiveness of the human body becomes a mirror of the world and of the harmonious or discordant relationships between the various beings
Fruteau, de Laclos Henry. "Les progymnasmata de Nicolaos de Myra dans la tradition versicolore des exercices préparatoires de rhétorique." Montpellier 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999MON30031.
Full textJoole, Patrick. "L'épître en vers et les grands rhétoriqueurs." Paris 10, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA100018.
Full textThe great rhetoricors have used the epistle in verse to constitute wide systems of relations. They wanted also to create different poetics from their other works, through Latin, medieval or Italian patterns. The epistle takes on variety in the themes, tones and styles, in spite of its fixed form and specific disposition. This variety is justified by the necessity to fit on the personality of the recipient or on the circumstances. The many internal variations and the brevity (in association with the variety) create the illusion of the vivacity. This illusion is reinforced by a sprightly and well-fed tone, unexpected images or occasionally burlesque effects. So the youth of the style antagonizes the sense of moderation, urbanity, the self-portraits (which represent a middle-aged auctor) and the rhetoric of mildness. The epistle is in fact destituted of sharp satiric shafts or too encroaching figures. It preserves the natural flow of the sentence because its art of seduction (not of persuasion) is in relation to aesthetics of nature. So this poetic manner approaches a relaxed and familiar conversation. The epistle seems to feed on itself. It deals with any subjects and expands a speech about the letter-writer. The auctor - now masked now openly - transforms his life at the court into tragi-comedy, shows oneself working, exposes pictures of his secluded life. The epistle, manner of the free-speech, shows a port who is delivered from the constraints of the court-life. So the rhetoricor asserts the consciousness of his merit and institutes, in parallel with the republic of letters, through the "small epistle", a "poetic aristocracy"
Nadaï, Jean-Christophe de. "Rhétorique et poétique dans la Pharsale de Lucain." Reims, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995REIML005.
Full textViau, Emmanuel. "Idéologie et rhétorique : réflexions sur la fonction épidictique dans le discours en démocratie." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010641.
Full textChazal, Benoît. "La rhétorique du blâme dans l'"Histoire Auguste"." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA151.
Full textRhetoric of Condemnation in the 'Historia Augusta' intends to study the collection of imperial biographies known as Historia Augusta as a literary object. The biographies were officially written by six authors at the end of the 3rd Century A.D. and at the beginning of the 4th Century A.D., but they were actually produced through the imagination of a single writer who lived at the end of the 4th Century A.D. according to the 19th Century thesis of the German historian Hermann Dessau. Through analysing a text that intricately mixes reality and fiction, this thesis will examine the different strategies intended to depict the sombre images of both legitimate and usurping emperors throughout the historical period that begins with Hadrian's reign and ends with the fall of Carin (2nd to 3rd Centuries A.D.). Observing the lexical, stylistic, thematic and structural methods reveals the importance of utilizing epideictic rhetoric as well as numerous intertextuality phenomena, particularly based on Suetonius's Vitae XII Caesarum, which is the main model of the collection. This inquiry drives to widen the thought interested by the target of the critic. If, behind the figures of bad princes, the writer tries to castigate the principate system that enables princely transgressions, he also tries to enhance his own writing. The writer tries to be different from other historiographers in a style that grants a large place to fantasy, self-mockery and raillery. This thesis endeavours, therefore, to study the representation of historical characters and events while underlining articulations between poetics and rhetoric in a major text of late Antiquity Latin literature
Kim, Heon. "Logoi devant la foule : la rhétorique et la poétique selon Aristote." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004STR20002.
Full textIn the Aristotelian philosophy, the rhetoric and the poetics are part of the productive science. The philosopher endeavars to give the theoretical base to the practice in the two verbal creations. .
Favreau-Linder, Anne-Marie. "Polémon de Laodicée : la vie, l'oeuvre, la postérité : "Phronêma (...) kai, nê Dia, sophian" ou l'art d'être sophiste au IIe siècle ap. J.-C." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003STR20071.
Full textPolémo is one of the major intellectual figures among those involved in the movement known as the Second Sophistic, at the beginning of the Roman Empire. His success and social status allowed him to assume an important political influence, even under the Roman dominion. Although only two declamations are now extant of his work, various kinds of documents (inscriptions, coins, literary testimonia) on his life and writings have survived, through Greek and Latin literature, up to the Byzantine period, thus giving an apportunity to elaborate a complete overview of his activity. This study gives the remaining texts - except the Physiognomy, which is transmitted mainly in an Arabic version - with a new translation, along the whole file of testimonia. Dealing with the two declamations and the other sources, we tried to give a comprehensive description of his rhetorical art and his social and political importance, hoping to bring forth a new contribution on the discussed phenomenon of the Second Sophistic
Dross, Juliette. "Les représentations de la philosophie à Rome, de Cicéron à Marc Aurèle." Paris 12, 2004. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990002531950204611&vid=upec.
Full textThis work, which deals with "the representations ofphilosophy in Rome, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius ", aims to study the way the roman philosophers would represent the concept of philosophy through a vivid style. This study is based on an exploration of the notion of "representation" in antic rhetoric, to which s dedicated the first movement of our work. This rhetoric analysis supports the statement of the representations of philosophy in Cicero's, Seneca's and Marcus Aurelius' works and their analysis, made in the second part of our work. We aim to show that the use of such rhetoric figures is dictated by pedagogic and parenetic requirements, when the writer wants to convert a disciple to philosophy, or polemic requirements, when he must refute an opponent. This diversity of functions explains the frequence ofthe representations ofphilosophy in philosophical literature and gives an original point ofview on the specificity ofron-ian thought
Raïos, Constantin. "Le "Discours égyptien" d'Aelius Aristide : édition critique, traduction et commentaire." Strasbourg, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011STRA1053.
Full textThe Egyptian Discourse of Aelius Aristides (117-180 CE) is a treaty on the causes of the annual flooding of Nile, a river that seemed to defy the laws of nature by overflowing its banks in summer and by receding in winter. Prior to the publication of Aristides’ discourse, this paradox had already been studied by many authors and a great number of theories had been proposed. However, the goal of the orator is not to find an explanation for the enigma. While refuting all theories put forth by his predecessors, Aristides wishes rather to prove that the Nile is divine and in this way, that its behavior remains inexplicable. After carefully collating all known medieval manuscripts and taking the historical data into consideration, it has been possible to produce a new critical edition of the text and all its scholia. The French translation is based on a new approach to the Greek text and explains passages that other translators have hitherto misinterpreted. Finally, the commentary aims to discuss problems only mentioned in the introduction, to add a variety of critical explanations that could not be included in the apparatus, and to justify translation choices in some cases
Grandjean, Thierry. "Le Blâme des cités chez Dion de Pruse." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STR20044.
Full textOur thesis studies the blames directed by the philosopher and sophist Dio of Prusa at the cities in the whole of his discourses. We show how Dio, thinking his duty to commit himself in politics, uses a skilful way to blame the immoral cities. We define the dionean idea of the city (an idealtype of the polis). The first part of our works (" Dio and the tradition of the blame to the city ") surveys the models of the past Dio uses in order to blame. The second part defines " the principles of the blame " : the power to rebuke of the Emperor and of the notables ; then we show Dio's friends and enemies, the circles and the clans. We see how many are the terms Dio uses to signify reproach ; at last, the values for which the philosopher blames the cities. In the third part (" the rebukes and their efficacy "), we list the different topoi for the blame to the city. Then are investigated the rebukes in several fields : in politics, in economy, in social life and in ethics. Finally, we assess the real efficacy of the dionean blame
Vix, Jean-Luc. "Les Discours 30 à 34 d'Aelius Aristide." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STR20052.
Full textUp until now, Aelius Aristides's Discourses 30 through 34 have never been the subject of any specific scholarly research and have never been translated into French. This present work, presented in two tomes, seeks to bridge that gap. First, the Discourses are each analyzed in terms of their specificity, composition, and theme. The characteristics of epideictic rhetoric are put into perspective with respect to Discourse 30, in honor of Apellas's birthday, and Discourses 31 and 32, two funeral oratories, the first in honor of Étéonée, Aristides's student, and the second in honor of the grammatikos Alexandros, Aristides's former master. Discourses 33 and 34, a response to Those who reproach him for not declaiming and a diatribe, Against the profaners, are the subject of a study centered on polemic rhetoric. The corpus is tied by the themes of teaching rhetoric and the paideia, culture, and education, which is especially illustrated by the figure of the grammarian Alexandros. This theme forms the final two chapters of Tome I. Tome II is dedicated to the translations and the history of the text of Discourse 31. This Discourse is the subject of a critical edition containing the collation of all extant manuscripts, resulting in a completely revised text, accompanied by a translation. The texts of the other four Discourses have been revised based on the apparatus of the last edition of the end of the 19th century, that of B. Keil. Parallel translations are also included
Poliquin, Émilie-Jade. "Les textes astronomiques latins : un univers de mots : enquête épistémologique, logique et rhétorique." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25781.
Full textIn our thesis, we study a corpus of ten Latin texts discussing astronomical topics such as the shape of the universe, the constellation descriptions and planet movements : the Aratea by Cicero, the ninth book of the De architectura by Vitruvius, the De astronomia by Hyginus, the Astronomica by Manilius, the Arati phaenomena by Germanicus, the second book of the Naturalis historia by Pliny, a large part of the Timaeus a Calcidio translatus commentarioque instructus by Calcidius, the Aratea by Avienus, some chapters of the Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis by Macrobius and, finally, the eighth book of the De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae by Martianus Capella. The major aims of this research were first to understand what was astronomical knowledge for the authors of these texts and, secondly, to see what were the means at their disposal to convey that knowledge. To achieve this, we did a dual study of our corpus : as our plan was essentially guided by an epistemological inquiry addressing the major themes of ancient astronomy - in other words, content, our analysis was in turn more focused on the form, both logical rhetorical, of these presentations. Our analyses allowed us to better understand the didacticism or educational aspect of all these works, as diverse as they were, by identifying a number of common literary devices, among which we find the triple staging of the man observing celestial phenomena, of the man who reasons and of the sky itself.
Zimmermann, Philippe. "Rythme métrique et rythme rhétorique dans la poésie lyrique d’Horace : recherches sur une poétique du sens." Rennes 2, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00451035/fr/.
Full textThe aim of the present work is to describe the stylistic specificities of Horace's writing in his lyric works (Odes Books I-IV and Carmen Saeculare), in order to define the poetic nature of the meaning which they develop. The style of the poems is studied through the relations between, on the one hand, the syntactic and rhetoric arrangement of the words, and, on the other hand, the metric shape of the stanzas. These relations are described on different scales. The first part of the work looks into the limits of the sentences and stanzas; the second studies how the syntactical, lexical, and phonic tools, which contribute to the rhetoric rhythm of the sentence, are positioned in the metric structure; the third shows how the words and the syntactical members bring about a second metrical reading of the stanzas. This leads to different kinds of conclusions. The complexity of the lyric genre in Horace appears through the plurality of its discursive aims and the diversity of the rhetoric tools used to reach them. Horace’s versification is studied according to a verbal and syntactic metrics that reveals its richness of expression. The relations between metrics and rhetoric, which go from harmony to complex counterpoint, show a poetic polyphony of meaning, where individuality and the voice of the community join together
Gotteland, Sophie. "Mythe et rhétorique : les exemples mythologiques dans les discours politiques de l'Athènes classique." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100039.
Full textThis thesis studies the use of mythological examples in the political speeches of classical Athens, that is in each political speech given in the fifth or fourth centuries B. C. And introducing at least one Athenian. First of all, the study of rhetorical treatises allows defining the figure of the example as well as the rules fixing its use. Most of the time, the mythical example is dealt with as a special instance of the historical example, and only differs from it by the way it is transmitted : from its sources, it keeps a privileged link with poetry, as it is evinced by the major influence exerted by Homer and Pindar upon orators. Then this essay examines which type of knowledge is defined as mythical by orators in the period above mentioned. The study of the term muthos and of all the words in the same family soon proves inadequate. According to orators, a mythical account is first of all a narrative about old days such as it has been transmitted by oral tradition, which becomes in pressing need of being rehabilitated. A study of the relations between myth and history corroborates this analysis: no true discrimination between these two ages, and a similar criterion for the manner of using them. This study ends with an accurate analysis of mythical examples. Used in all the fields of political life, they take part in the building up of an exemplary Athens as well as in solving the more urgent matter of fact problems in the politics of everyday life
Salm, Eléonore Caroline. "La Leçon de musique : les relations entre rhétorique et musique dans l'oeuvre de Denys d'Halicarnasse." Strasbourg, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009STRA1069.
Full textThe relationships between rhetoric and music are of major importance in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ work. The aim of this dissertation is to examine the author’s account on music and its place in the theories exposed in the Opuscula and in the Roman Antiquities. The comparison between rhetoric and music is at the heart of the nature of rhetoric, analysed according to musical criteria. Music and rhetoric are of determining importance in the definition of culture proper to the Greco-Roman Empire in construction
Alessio, Paola d'. "Tradition manuscrite, fortune et réception de l’oeuvre de Chorikios de Gaza." Thesis, Nantes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NANT2018.
Full textThe objective of this dissertation is to show how the work by Choricius of Gaza has been transmitted from his time to the present. The volume is made up of five sections. The first section focuses on the printed editions of Choricius’ work and on the studies about his success as an author and about his manuscript tradition. The second part, dedicate to the direct manuscript tradition, includes the list and the catalog of all the Choricius’ manuscripts. The third chapter presents the stemma codicum of the Patroclus (the work that has been copied in the most of the manuscripts) and explains also the process by which the manuscripts were classified in families. The fourth chapter is mainly centered on the fortune of Choricius as an author during the centuries. Firstly, information on the first editions of Choricius is provided, then the presence of extracts by the rhetor in the sacro-profane florilegia and in the manuals of rhetoric is analyzed, and then the imitations that were made of Choricius are noted. Finally, in the same section, there is an analysis of the characters who played an important role for the fortune of the rhetorician. The Appendix is the last section: it contains the results of the collation of the 58 manuscripts that have transmitted the Patroclus. At the end of the volume, besides the bibliographic abbreviations and tables, there are the indices of watermarks, places, manuscripts and names, which allow the readers to find the information they need
Pernot, Laurent. "La rhétorique de l'éloge dans le monde grec à l'époque de la seconde sophistique (fin du 1er - fin du IIIe siècle après J-C. )." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040042.
Full textThe first part of the thesis outlines the stages in the development of praise and its constitution as a rhetorical genre, from the earliest achievements of classical Greece until the triumph of epideictic oratory in the Roman Empire. The second part analyses the technique of the rhetorical praise, as it was laid down by rhetoricians and as it was practised by orators, with its model outline, its different types of speeches, its kinds of style, its conditions of pronunciation and publication. Lastly, the third part studies the stakes covered by this technique. It assesses the criticisms formulated against praise in antiquity, and studies the reasons for its success: what were the missions that the epideictic orators undertook, what functions their speeches fulfilled, and what messages they conveyed to the Greeks of the imperial period
Valette-Cagnac, Emmanuelle. "Anthropologie de la lecture dans la Rome antique." Paris, EPHE, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993EPHEA003.
Full textFar from being a direct and passive consequence of writing, reading forms an independent subject of study and even offers on the roman world a precious standpoint, as it enables us to go beyond the bounds of the traditional opposition between orality and literacy and to analyze the way speech and writing combine their effects. Despite the existence of silent reading, reading aloud is still in use in occidental culture till the 8th century. Why the voice did not abdicate? By studying the different forms of loud reading, we found that vocalization is not only intended to give sense and to communicate, but that it contributes to make writing efficient. Reading aloud is not a simple oral deciphering. It may be used to produce some text (recitatio). As "silent speech", funerary inscriptions institute a fiction, revealing the necessity for the reader to fill the gap that is left by the writer. Lastly, the "double vocalization" process (praeire verbis) characterizing a few types of rituals, answers the double necessity of producing an entirely public statement and of reconciling a paradoxal aspiration of continuity and change
Viellard, Delphine. "Les liminaires dans les oeuvres latines des IVe et Ve siècle." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040088.
Full textIn the introductions to their works, the 4th and 5thcenturies' authors, be they pagan or christian, reveal their faith to the traditional rhetoric and mainly to Ciceron's "De inuentione". The introductory texts called in latin "exordium", "prologus", "prooemium", "praefatio" and "praefatiuncula" take on forms as varied as the oratory "exordium", the poetical "prooeminium, the dedicatory epistle and preface, which all imitate the oratory "exordium" codified from the poetic tradition. As we have demonstrated, the choice of an introductory text depends on the genre of work because the each literary genre corresponds a specific kind of text. Besides, the presence of some elements which are external to the "exordium" testifies more to our author's will to go beyond the mere presentation of the work rather than to a rejection of the rhetoric of th "exordium". The introductory text then becomes a text open not only to the external events but also to different people: dedicatees and interlocutors. Hence the emergence of the preface increasingly used by the Christiens, who are fond of justifications and consequently develop this introductory genre following thus in the steps of Jerome
Coulon, Laurent. "Le discours en Égypte ancienne : éloquence et rhétorique à travers les textes de l'Ancien au Nouvel Empire." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040060.
Full textThis thesis deals with the discourse in ancient Egypt and the various shapes of valorization which matter is the discourse itself as a social activity as well as a literary shape and topic. The question, thus, relates to the way in which the ancient Egyptians have been picturing to themselves the discourse and its applications, its importance, its functions and its aesthetic value. The method adopted is built upon a pragmatic approach in which the texts from the ancient kingdom to the new kingdom that mention the dimension of the discourse (autobiographies, teachings, royal inscriptions, literary or religious texts) are related to their sociological and historical context. It is then possible to draw out, for each period, the place given to eloquence: thus, in the times of united monarchic power, the existence of court eloquence is stated, which is the means of distinction above all. On the contrary, during the first intermediate period, with the local withdrawal of the provinces, an unprecedented spreading out of political eloquence appears in assemblies where the community's future is committed. The literary discourse forms also the subject of a study in so far as it builds a reflection on the part taken by the discourse. During the middle kingdom, productions such as "the eloquent peasant" or "the lamentations of khakheperreseneb" are questioning deeply the lack of social communication or the loss of reference in an official discourse which fairness is fallacious. During the new kingdom, the literature, which had become more autonomous in the sphere of the discourse, appears as an all-powerful rhetoric that trifles with the truth and the false. The study eventually opens on an endeavor to evaluate the Egyptian rhetoric in itself, especially through what links the latter to the magic discourse
Couillaud, Bruno. "Le discours rhétorique et le bien de la cité selon Aristote." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040186.
Full textRhetoric, usual weapon of the demagogues or the ambitious, be useful to the politicians? Plato is severe and appears to mean, very unlike his disciple, Aristotle, that we cannot seek for common good using it. Thus we must first settle the legitimacy of rhetoric as a reasoning. Human reason uses it in probable matter, in the field of human conduct, moral or politic, dialectics being directly useful in thought field. However, one and the other are distinct from sophistic and eristic which aim at appearance or error. Then we look for the nature of the practical reasoning at the end of which we apply us to good. The light brought by Aristotle makes us distinguish between politics as certain knowledge which formulates common principles of human conduct and, first of all, common good as end of the city, and prudence which leans upon experience and formulates principles more circumstantial. As examples of practical reasoning, we study two discourses of Pericles and Isocrates. The third part tries at last to bring a solution : speculative and common first, distinguishing practical judgment from the judgment to which the orator leads; practical and applicated then, showing how rhetoric, subordinated to political prudence can serve to the common good of a city. This under three aspects: the one of argumentation where value and efficacy of example and enthymeme are shown; the one of the passions of the hearers, bound to the subjects entered upon by the orator (educator, suitor or counsellor); he must have them become his allies; at last, the one of the moral virtue of the orator who brings the argument of his person itself to oratorical art. Thus, mastering these three gifts, rational, affective and moral, may help serving common good in this part of its quest where speech is conclusive
Guittard, Charles. "Recherches sur le carmen et la prière dans la littérature latine et la religion romaine." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040106.
Full textFirst is studied the situation of the prayer in the roman religion (libri, typology) and described the proceeding of the prayer as ritual. Are defined the formulas in the public worship (sacrifice, votum, supplicationes, hymns) and in the private or domestic worship (interjections, daily prayers, genius, prayers form birth to death). Then are considered the problem of the Saturnian verse and its religion with the Latin carmen (accent, prosody), the tradition of the oracles (sibylline oracles) etrusco-italic tradition (carmina marciana, tarquitius priscus, vegoia, haruspices). Philological studies are devoted to the great corpus of prayers preserved in latin literature: bronze tables of iguvium, ritual of devotio and of evocatio, prayers from Cato's De Agricultura, special studies are dedicated to the colleges of fetials, augurs, salians and arvals brothers
Claisse, Muriel. "La brièveté dans les discours politiques de Cicéron." Grenoble 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006GRE39059.
Full textThis study about "the brevity in Cicero's political speeches" fits in with researches on ancient rhetoric and contemporary studies on poetics. Although it is crucial to consider ancient theories on rhetoric –especially ciceronian rhetoric– in order to understand and read the orator's brevity, our own understanding of this notion will surely be enriched by the concept of brevity's revival by modern poetics. Following an inventory of the researches on brevity, I will cover the concept's history through rhetorical works known by Cicero. With the help of modern poetics' concepts, I will eventually develop and clear Cicero's intuitions when dealing –for example– with quidam cantus obscurior or actio. Such a reading of ciceronian brevity has practical outcomes, for it can lead to a new practice of translation which actually takes this brevity into consideration. This is why I propose as a conclusion a commented translation of the fourth Philippic
Papléka, Féridé. "Rupture et continuité dans l'œuvre de Pascal Quignard." Paris 8, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA083997.
Full textPascal Quignard’s work is a sort of “deprogramming of literature” which is in a way, the starting point of both functional rupture and continuity. It is mostly focused on the fragment (la fragmentation est l’âme de l’art”) “Fragmentation is Art’s soul”. It is a literary genre of its own, one that cannot be strictly classified, at the crossroad of essay and fiction. « Dernier royaume » (Last Kingdom) is central to Quignard’s work, a kind of existential encyclopedia. His books can be sorted into two groups that mix reality and fiction: his essays and his novels. His whole narration seems to be under the influence of silence. Silence is considered as an actuation of speech and not its absence. Discovering is happiness to him and then writing is a painful duty. The author’s intimate relationship with his work raises many questions already. His work is in a perpetual upward movement. Pascal Quignard is the living object of his books
Valente, Pierre. "Le sublime chez les stoi͏̈ciens romains de la République au Haut Empire." Lyon 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003LYO31018.
Full textDeroma, Matteo. "L'école rhétorique de Gaza au Ve-VIe siècle de notre ère : le Patroclus de Chorikios. : étude historique et littéraire, traduction et commentaire." Thesis, Nantes, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016NANT2001.
Full textThe thesis offers an historical and literary study, over the translation and the commentary of one declamation of Choricius of Gaza, the Patroclus (op XXXVIII F./R.). In the first part, we briefly discuss the history of the Roman region Palestina I and the most important issues concerning the cultural environment that characterized Gaza at the time of Choricius. Then, once the rhetorician biography is reconstructed in outline and sketched his entire literary production, we focus, in the second part, on the twelve declamations and the accompanying texts (the dia/exeis and the tneorisîs. The Patroclus is a mythological declamation related to Homer's epic, so we dedicate another section to the analysis of the relationship between the work of Choricius and his model. This work leads us to emphasize the importance of the school in the composition of this kind of texts and the close relationship between the rhetorician and the Homeric material. Our thesis also discusses the manuscript tradition of the work and its attribution to Choricius, for a long time disputed. After describing the structure of declamation, we explain the reasons why we sometimes had to modify the current edition. Our study continues with the Greek texts and Italians translations of the diel. 22-23 (= opp. XXXVI-XXXVII F./R.) and Patroclus. The dialexeis and declamations combine with a literary, philological and stylistic commentary that illustrates the choices made when the translation was made and introduces eventual echoes and similarities hidden in the text
Caron, Marie-Dauphine. "Le mythe à l’épreuve de la rhétorique et de la poétique dans les tragédies de Sénèque : tribune philosophique ou parole universelle ?" Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040235.
Full textBy a displacement of tragic action in familia he psychologises, Seneque internalizes theory of passions end maintains liberating benefits of the intellection as much on a political point of view as on social and ontological ones. Through the respect of pietas and fides, the intellection guarantees social equity and protects the city from the tyrant. By the right assent and time control, it protects the hero from the furor and the tragic feeling of his painful condition. It confines the hero inside furor borders and so diverts him from infringement by which the furious believes to be free from events and leads him to find happiness through a morality of efforts and deliberate support of his destiny. These stoicienne values are brought by an aesthetic pleasing of the sublime and emotion. Based on pictures and texts, between evocative speech and epic realism, it creates “the delicious horror”, bringing the spectator towards an cathartical analogy. The theatricalisation of myth, allegory of terrifying conflicts of mankind against himself or cosmos, is universal speech
Bajoni, Maria Grazia. "La diplomatie romaine au Bas-Empire : étude institutionnelle lexicale et rhétorique." Paris, EHESS, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012EHES0057.
Full textThis study presents the analysis of diplomatic speech during the Late Antiquity period (4th-6th A. D. ) both in the Western and Eastern areas of the Roman Empire. Part I considers the events that emphasized the developement of diplomacy, the new adressees of the Roman diplomacy and changing balance of power to wich the Roman discourse had to adapt. Part II of this research seeks to analyse the historical narrative techniques and the production of diplomatic correspondence. Part III presents an analysis of the langage and rhetorical strategies in diplomatic speech. The diplomatic language is caracterised by the use of current lexicon and by the terms of political institutions adjusted to new political situations. The methods of modern linguistics allow a more in-depth study of discursive practice to be developed. Above all, the distinction proposed by Émile Benveniste between "story" and "speech" presents an excellent opportunity to widen the analysis of discursive strategies of late antique diplomacy. The pragmatical attitude of diplomatic speech est expressed by the modal formation of utterances, functions of langage and speech acts. The annexed corpus of textes gives evidence taken from historiographical and hagiographical sources, chronicles and epistolary documents
Lepetit, Marie-Laure. "La parole polémique chez Cicéron : histoire d'une vie." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040013.
Full textThe Antiquity knew the concept of polemic : if Rome allows, under some very well established circumstances insolent and unrestrained words, the law doesn't allow to commit either verbal or written personnal attacks. Nevertheless, although polemic maintains strong connection with oratorical art, it is not represented in any antique rhetoric treaty, it is a never agreed gender, with never fixed rules, as if the Ancients were ignoring or willing to ignore it. The stylistic studies of various Cicero's texts, political discourses and advocate's pleas, philosophical treaties and the intimate letters to friends and family, allowed us to highlight the originality of the polemic discourse compared to blame or invective. So could we achieve a rhetorical definition of polemic. Three main characteristics have been identified. Polemic is in constant metamorphosis, so there is not one type of polemical discourse but various polemical situations. Moreover, this complexity creates a monstruous character which prevents to settle inside the antique rhetoric system and obliges to always escape. This why the polemical discourse is not linked to the rhetoric of evidence but to a rhetoric of the implicit, of twilight
Lounès, Edith. "Les Tactiques de la persuasion dans les harangues de Démosthène : analyse de quelques paradigmes." Université Paris 4, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA040112.
Full textLoutsch, Claude. "L'exorde dans les discours de Cicéron." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040121.
Full textThe thesis focuses on the persuasive function of the exordium in Cicero’s speeches. Part one surveys the ancient theories about exordia, such as we know them through the "De inventione" and the "De oratore" of Cicero himself and the "Rhetorica ad Herennium". The major part of the work is a rhetorical analysis of twenty-seven exordia belonging to speeches ranging over thirty-seven years (80-43 b. C. ) of the long oratorical career of the great roman statesman and lawyer. Each analysis demonstrates how Cicero, through an appropriate choice and arrangement of exordial themes, prepares his audience to listen sympathetically and attentively and intelligently to the subsequent argumentation. The underlying idea is that the orator aims mainly at efficiency. Part three is a general outline of the exordial topics in Cicero’s speeches. The most important conclusion of this study may be as follows: apart from senatorial speeches, where the exordium is purely informative, its function is mostly ethical and consists much less in introducing the matter under discussion than in presenting the persons involved; it enforces the reputation of the orator himself and enhances those qualities of his that under the circumstances are most likely to ensure him the confidence of his audience
Gerlinger, Stefan. "Römische Schlachtenrhetorik : Unglaubwürdige Elemente in Schlachtendarstellungen, speziell bei Caesar, Sallust und Tacitus." Paris, EPHE, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EPHE4088.
Full textWhen studying battle descriptions by Roman historiographers, one will find basic narrative patterns whose historical authenticity is rarely doubted. However, there are also patterns that seem far less believable. Some of these patterns have turned out to be obviously unrealistic or physically impossible at all. While they cannot be accepted at face value, cannot be completely rejected as unfounded fiction either. They are neither detailed descriptions of historical facts that happened exactly this way nor shameless lies. Instead, it seems plausible to think of a specific communication situation - a Roman battle rhetoric. The individual elements of this battle rhetoric go back to ancient archetypes, many of them directyly to Homer. The seminal nature of his work accounts for a widespread diffusion of these narrative patterns in literature and sculptural art. Due to this diffusion, they could gather a certain persuasive power of their own. This power is indebted to the prominence they had gathered in the Roman world rather than they were historical. Thus, patterns evolved that wher later laken for granted. Their use may sometimes not have been thought about, for the most part however, it was very delibrerate with very clear aims
Guard, Thomas. "Memoria renovata : les valeurs de mémoire chez Ciceron." Lyon 2, 2005. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2005/guard_t.
Full textNey, Hugues-Olivier. "Techné et Mimésis dans le livre II de la "République" de Platon." Aix-Marseille 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002AIX10007.
Full textGoeken, Johann. "Les Hymnes en prose d'Aelius Aristide : (or.XXXVII-XLVI)." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004STR20063.
Full textThis thesis deals with the hymns in prose (or. XXXVII-XLVI) of Aelius Aristides, a second century A. D. Greek orator. Its purpose is to provide the foundation for a critical edition of them, offering a translation into French (the first one ever for the whole corpus), as well as critical notices and commentary. So defined, the corpus will then be subjected to an extensive interpretative synthesis. The first part of the thesis analyses the favoured status of prose hymns in this orator's career, the poetics they put to work, the way they are firmly anchored in Greco-Roman culture and society and the religious attitude they reveal. This paper intends above all to investigate religious rhetorical practice, but it is also concerned with how the hymn sophist composer related to poetry and philosophy. In the second part, each piece comes with its translation on the opposite page, after a notice relating the circumstances of its composition, commenting on its pronunciation, structure, general spirit and main features; the notice also specifies the fundamental historical, institutional and political conditions of the individual oratory production. Based on the 1898 Keil's Berlin edition, the Greek text has been thoroughly revised and freed of many unjustifiable conjectures. A fivefold commentary, in the third part, aims at 1) describing the stages of the argumentation, while identifying the topoi that come into play; 2) explaining and commenting on the numerous quotations that enrich the orator's prose; 3) pointing out stylistic flourishes and linguistic niceties; 4) providing information about mythological allusions and contemporary realia; 5) discussing the opinions of former commentators
Manzione, Carlo. "Il Rhetor di Coricio di Gaza (op. XLII Foerster/Richtsteig) : società e scuola a Gaza nel tardo-antico." Thesis, Nantes, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016NANT2003.
Full textIn the Rhetor (op. XLII F./R.) Choricius of Gaza imagines that a rhetor of a city under siege, with his oratorical skills, is able to convince the enemy to raise the siege, avoiding in this way a long and violent war to his fellow citizens. He demands from the city the prize which it is up to “the one who successfully put through a war”. A soldier opposes “because the law dispenses prizes to the winner with weapons, not to those who convinces with words”. The declamation is a tribute to the evocative and persuasive power of the logos. It marks the triumph of the power of reason upon the reason of force. The thesis proposes: an introduction about Choricius, his work and the recurrent themes of his declamations (also in order to the theme of gheras in the rhetorical tradition and declamatory) and its frame of reference; the translation of declamation; the linguistic and stylistic commentary and, at the same time, historical and literary commentary. This commentary is to clarify the author's text and the influence on Choricius of tradition and his originality in relation to this tradition. The thesis contextualizes the Choricius' work in the Gaza on the fifth and sixth century A.D. and the role of the Gaza School in the transition from the classical tradition to Christianity. The analysis and commentary of Rhetor focuses mainly on analysis of “loci communes”; structure of declamation; dialexeis; dialexis 24 and its location "problematic" in Choriciu’s corpus
Sauterel, Nadine. "L'Eloge pour le duc Aratios et le gouverneur Stéphanos et la dialexis y relative (op.III cum dial. 3 F./R.) : introduction générale, traduction princeps et commentaire." Thesis, Nantes, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NANT2038.
Full textIn the VIth century AD, Choricios of Gaza is one of the last representatives of the sophistry and the Greek rhetoric of imperial and late period. Successor of Procope at the head of the school of Rhetoric of Gaza, Choricios is an essential figure in the understanding of the culture of this period. Known especially for his famous descriptions of both churches of Gaza, Saint Serge and Saint Stéphane, for his Apology of the mimes and his funeral oration for Procope, Choricios of Gaza was ignored for a long time by the researchers. This thesis proposes the French translation and the literary comment and the history of the Praise for duke Aratios and governor Stéphanos (op. III F / R) preceded by a rich general introduction. This one approaches and develops the context of production of the praise and the dialexis, the fortune and the reception of the speech, the prosopographie of the dedicatees, the literary genre, the structure and the circumstances of recitation, as well as the language and the rhythm of the prose
Gautherie, Aurélien. "Rhétorique et thérapeutique dans le "De Medicina" de Celse." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAC031.
Full textThis PhD thesis aims at analyzing the relationship between rhetoric and therapeutiques exposed by Celsus, a Roman encyclopaedist from the 1st century AD, in his De Medieina, or On Medicina. Our main concem is to try and provide with a global approach of Celsus' worlc, taking into account every single aspect of it, from its writing to its putting into practice by a professional or amateur healer
Noël, Marie-Pierre. "Gorgias de Léontini : témoignages, texte critique traduit et commenté des œuvres et fragments." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040137.
Full textThe knowledge we have of Gorgias of Leontini, one of the most famous sophists who taught in Greece in the second half of the fifth century B. C. , relies mostly on a few texts, fragments, testimonies and polemics. A complex edition of his work - the first one in France - including a critical edition of his works, a new list and a new classification of the testimonies and fragments, with translation and commentary, gives us a better understanding of Gorgias’ importance: as he started the reflection on the means of persuasion, he should be considered as a founder of the art of rhetoric, but also of our modern conception of philosophical research
Zimmermann, Philippe. "Rythme métrique et rythme rhétorique dans la poésie lyrique d'Horace : recherches sur une poétique du sens." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00451035.
Full textToffoli, Ian de. "La réception du latin et de la culture antique chez Claude Simon, Pascal Quignard et Jean Sorrente." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040220.
Full textWhen a critic’s work intends to focus on the presence of Latin and classic culture in the work of contemporary writers, one thinks foremost of the notion of heritage. But it is this notion of heritage that poses a problem. One has to approach it in a very prudent way, as if it would be a lure, even though it is attested in the works of our three authors, through the use of recurrent formal parallels, Latin quotations, and the transposition and rewriting of ancient texts. Indeed, though it is evident that these works show an apparent continuity both in form and in cultural content, the reinvested Latin Antiquity looses its particular status: it is neither object of the text, nor voice of the authority, nor proof of erudition (although it sometimes pretends to be), nor treasure box of rhetorical tools that help seducing the reader: on the contrary, it is a trap for the reader who places his trust solely in his cultural knowledge. The reinvestment that our three authors apply to the Latin text and culture gets dangerously close either to the stereotype, the commonplace, either to a completely personal reuse of antique culture. Latin is thus either a product of their artistic imagination (and as such cannot be totally identified with the dead language that we know), either part of the textual productivity of their writing, which means that it must be considered as a reusable material rather than an autonomous text. The bond that ties Claude Simon’s, Pascal Quignard’s and Jean Sorrente’s works to the Latin is thus paradoxical in nature: what they do is reinventing, or rather rewriting Antiquity
Kauffmann, Sophie. "Discours 45, 50, 51 et 52 de Libanios : édition, traduction, commentaire." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100121.
Full textMy doctorate consists of the editing, French translation and commentary of four orations of Libanios composed between 385 and 390 A. D. At Antioch. They all belong to judicial oratory, addressed to the emperor Theodose the Ist, to obtain the publication of a law which would stop the injustice caused by the corruption of governors. These orations are the 45th, 50th, 51th and 52th in the Teubner collection. My commentary of them is from the historical, rhetorical and literary point of view
Larivée, Annie. "L'Asclépios politique : étude sur le soin de l'âme dans les dialogues de Platon." Paris 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA010548.
Full textPoliquin, Émilie-Jade. "Les textes astronomiques latins : un univers de mots : enquête épistémologique, logique et rhétorique." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20115.
Full textIn our thesis, we study a corpus of ten Latin texts discussing astronomical topics such as the shape of the universe, the constellation descriptions and planet movements : the Aratea by Cicero, the ninth book of the De architectura by Vitruvius, the De astronomia by Hyginus, the Astronomica by Manilius, the Arati phaenomena by Germanicus, the second book of the Naturalis historia by Pliny, a large part of the Timaeus a Calcidio translatus commentarioque instructus by Calcidius, the Aratea by Avienus, some chapters of the Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis by Macrobius and, finally, the eighth book of the De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae by Martianus Capella. The major aims of this research were first to understand what was astronomical knowledge for the authors of these texts and, secondly, to see what were the means at their disposal to convey that knowledge. To achieve this, we did a dual study of our corpus : as our plan was essentially guided by an epistemological inquiry addressing the major themes of ancient astronomy - in other words, content, our analysis was in turn more focused on the form, both logical rhetorical, of these presentations. Our analyses allowed us to better understand the didacticism or educational aspect of all these works, as diverse as they were, by identifying a number of common literary devices, among which we find the staging of the man observing celestial phenomena, the staging of the man who reasons and the staging of the sky itself