By John Marincola
This publication is a examine of many of the claims to authority made by means of the traditional Greek and Roman historians all through their histories, and of ways during which the culture of historical historiography formed their responses and molded the presentation of themselves to their viewers. Guiding them of their claims to be authoritative was once the culture of the founders and top practitioners of background, Herodotus and Thucydides.
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Atribuir algo a la propia opinión. —Evitar apostrofes e hipóstrofes. —Cortos. C. —Poco cuidadosa del hiato. —Dactilicas, anapésticas, peónicas, yámbicas y espondaicas. INTRODUCCIÓN 59 —Evitar las trocaicas y jónicas. —En pie no cataléctico. R. —Estable: debe terminar en nombre o expresión nomi nal de no menos de tres sílabas. —Doble espondeo o un epitrito en la pausa. —Vocal abierta en el último o penúltimo pie. 2. Aspereza (254-60) —Su contrario es la Dulzura. P. —Los que contienen abierta reprensión de personas su periores por parte de inferiores.
La preterición, explícita o sin mención expresa. —Hablar de forma muy simple, como en la Pureza y Simplicidad. D. —La pura y simple. —Como en Pureza y Simplicidad, si es que estos componentes son pertinentes. INTRODUCCIÓN 65 VI. S in c er id a d (352-63) P. —Los simples y, tal vez, los equitativos. —Los que expresan indignación. T. —Expresar las emociones directamente mediante el dis curso, sin anunciarlas de antemano. —Dar respuestas rápidas sin establecer un anuncio for mal. —Aparentar que se habla impulsado por el momento.
También se une a ella el concepto de elevación (díarma). Ónkos aparece con ese sentido ya en la Retórica de Aristóteles. Semnótes o semnós aparecían también en Isócrates. Aristóteles la cita en relación con lo heroico y lo megaloprepés. Teofrasto la cita junto a megaloprépeia y kallilogía, esto es, grandiosidad y belleza expresiva, pero no tiene en estos autores el valor específico de forma estilística. La citan también Demetrio, Longino y Ps. Aristides. Este último autor hace mención asimismo de sphodrótës y trachytes, pero sus caracteres aparecen asimilados, de modo que la segunda no tiene desarrollo, y habla sólo INTRODUCCIÓN 45 de la primera, que coincide con la trachytes de Hermó genes 9S.