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Ancient rhetoric and poetic : $b Interpreted from representative works
Baldwin, Charles Sears
Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Poetics -- History -- To 1500; Rhetoric, Ancient
[7] αἳ μὲν ἄτεχνοί εἰσιν αἳ δ’ ἔντεχνοι. Cope, _Introduction_, page
150, translates “unscientific and scientific”; Welldon, “inartistic or
artistic”; Jebb, “inartificial or artificial.” None of these translations
is satisfactory in connotation. _Scientific_, or _artistic_, or
_artificial_ suggests associations not borne out by the context and
ultimately misleading. Aristotle says simply “means that lie outside of
the art and means that lie within it.” The means that lie within are
hardly, in fact or in his intention, _scientific_. They are _artistic_ in
the broadest sense of being attainable by art, not in the narrower sense
of belonging to fine art, nor in the colloquial sense of being pretty.
_Artificial_ they are not at all, except when they are misapplied.
[8] 1356 a.
[9] 1356 a.
[10] 1357 a.
[11] 1356 a.
[12] 1358 a.
[13] 1358 b.
[14] Of the various translations of Aristotle’s ἐπιδεικτικός,
“demonstrative” is flatly a mistranslation, “oratory of display” is
quite too narrow a translation, and “epideictic” is not a translation at
all. The nearest word in current use is “_panegyric_,” which is right
as far as it goes. But English use, though it lacks a single equivalent
word, is none the less familiar with the thing. The kind of oratory that
Aristotle means is the oratory of the Gettysburg Address, of most other
commemorative addresses, and of many sermons. The French equivalent is
_discours de circonstance_.
[15] Chapter iv. 1359 a.
[16] 1359 b-1360 a.
[17] 1360 b-1361 b.
[18] Chapter vi. 1362 a-1363 b.
[19] Chapter vii. 1363 b.
[20] Chapter viii. 1366 a.
[21] Chapter ix. 1366 a-1368 a.
[22] τὸ καλόν, treated again in Book II from the point of view of the
audience.
[23] Chapters x-xv. 1368 b-1377 b.
[24] Chapter i. 1377 b. “In regard to πάθη and ἤθη, which move juries,
the most important part is to know how these emotions are aroused and
allayed. This alone, judging that it is none of their business, the
rhetors have not borrowed from Aristotle, though they have borrowed
everything else.” Philodemus, _Rhetorica_, trans. Hubbell, Transactions
of the Connecticut Academy, vol. 23 (September, 1920), page 338.
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