Les Progymnasmata en pratique, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Copte Berry Archaeology and History Notebooks

Berry Archaeology and History Notebooks

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Georges Mélies

by Jacqueline de Romilly I

Les Progymnasmata en pratique, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Copte Berry Archaeology and History NotebooksThe progymnasmata (preparatory rhetorical exercises) are a set of speech forms considered fundamental and complementary: in the most widespread list (that of Aphthonios), there are twelve of them: the fable, the story, the chria, the maxim, the contestation (and confirmation), the commonplace, the praise (and blame), the parallel, the ethopoeia, the description, the thesis and the proposition of law. Organized in a progressive series, supplemented by