Code
01N01514
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 January 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- History
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of language studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Theory and methodology of literary studies
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
New Historicism
Greek literature
ancient rhetoric
Project description
A literary-rhetorical analysis of speeches, essays and biographies from the Second Sophistic (50-250 AD) will test the hypothesis that democratic elements in politics in Greek cities continued to exist under Roman imperial rule. This hypothesis challenges a long-standing and influential common opinion among both literary scholars and ancient
historians. The methodology combines ancient rhetoric and New Historicism.