Un <i>topos</i> attico di V secolo: il <i>logos amarturos</i>

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Livio Rossetti

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The "logos amarturos" is a prominent topos of (mostly) fifth century dicanic oratory. Apart of three later works which includethe word "amarturos" in their title (one by Isocrates, one by Antisthenes, and one by Speusippus), such a topos marks most of the evidence available on the fifth century dicanic oratory, Corax to Antiphonand Gorgias. Beside there are some "outsiders", such as the Hymn to Zeus, Euripides' Hippolytus, and Sophocles' Oedipus rex, where the logos amarturos does play an important role. What is astonishingis rather the lack of attention for such a topos in the scholarly literature (no paper at all, it seems!). As a consequence, the present outline of the relevant evidence may only count as a preliminary and tentative one.