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Review: [untitled]Author(s): Ian RutherfordReviewed work(s): Exordium Narratio Epilogus: Studi sulla teoria retorica greca e romana delleparti del discorso by Lucia Calboli MontefuscoSource: The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 2, (1990), pp. 495-495Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3066214Accessed: 15/04/2008 23:35

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latter, much as one regrets that the brevity of the work made it necessary. So for instance with Aeschylus discussion of his language and imagery, spectacle and theatrical effects, treatment of the gods and human characters, is seen almost exclusively through the Oresteia. In the case of Sophocles it is the Theban plays that form the centre of attention, in Euripides Medea, Bacchae and Hippolytos that provide the focus for study of women, gods, language and structure, and the role of the chorus. To quibble over such matters, though, is otiose; the true verdict on the volume's worth has already been established by students - they have bought it.

University of Warwick S. IRELAND

LUCIA CALBOLI MONTEFUSCO: Exordium Narratio Epilogus: studi sulla teoria retorica greca e romana delle parti del discorso. (Universita degli studi di Bologna, Pubblicazioni del dipartimento di filologia classica e medioevale, 1.) Pp. x+119. Bologna: CLUEB, 1988. Paper. A monograph dealing with the first, second and fifth of the five partes orationis might seem a rather strange thing: why not deal with all five? C.M. explains the choice of topic in the preface: she has already published a study of the third (partitio - see A. Pennecini ed., Studi di retorica oggi in Italia, pp. 69ff.), and is planning a study of the fourth (argumentatio), which will presumably be a much larger undertaking. So exordium, narratio and epilogus are left over for the present book.

The section on narratio will inevitably be the most read. This is an important topic on which no definitive study previously existed (the nearest to it perhaps being Barwick's article 'Die Gliederung der Narratio...' in Hermes for 1928 [pp. 261ff.]). The 55 pages that C.M. gives us are not the last word, but they are an excellent general survey. Special topics dealt with include combinations of narratives; the secondary narrative or rrapaStj'yrcat; the theory of historia, argumentum, and fabula (pp. 43ff.: C.M. sees as primary here the opposition between true narrative [historia] and false narrative [argumentum, fabula], which she traces back to Plato [Rep. 376c]); a brief discussion of the Platonic 'modes' of narrative (Sta /L/xrkaVEWo, $L' adTayyEAL'a, and a mixed form), in so far as these intersect with rhetoric (pp. 55ff.: in this connection she offers a nice critique of Barwick's interpretation of the narrative involving persona referred to by Cicero at De Inventione 1.27: Barwick suggested that this category must have to do with the Platonic 'modes', but C.M. suggests that it refers to a narrative which one approaches from the point of view of the nature of the agent, and she may well be right); there follow valuable discussions of the aXyjarTa 671qyr7auEw (pp. 62ff.: I missed here a reference to Hermogenes 7TrEp liSE?v, 228, 25ff) and of the dpeTrat St7y7auEwst (pp. 65ff.).

I conclude with some minor complaints. Type-setting has been done with a computer, and, though the overall effect is satisfactory, the type-size is a little larger than one is used to, and the Greek is a fraction over-proportioned. I also noticed one or two spelling mistakes, some of them in the Greek.

Harvard University IAN RUTHERFORD

GONSALV K. MAINBERGER: Rhetorica I. Reden mit Vernunft, Aristoteles, Cicero, Augustinus; Rhetorica II. Spiegelungen des Geistes, Sprachfiguren bei Vico und Levi-Strauss. (Problemata, 116 and 117.) 2 vols. Pp. 384, 336. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1987 and 1988. I, DM 68 (Paper, DM 48); II, Paper, DM 48.

Despite the impression given by the title, M.'s subject is not rhetoric itself, but the somewhat broader notion of conjectural reasoning (die vermutende Vernunft), by which he understands reasoning of the sort that people use when dealing with the contingencies of everyday life, a type of reasoning which he thinks is to be distinguished from the reasoning whose object is exact knowledge of non-contingent truths. M. thinks that conjectural reasoning is much more

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latter, much as one regrets that the brevity of the work made it necessary. So for instance with Aeschylus discussion of his language and imagery, spectacle and theatrical effects, treatment of the gods and human characters, is seen almost exclusively through the Oresteia. In the case of Sophocles it is the Theban plays that form the centre of attention, in Euripides Medea, Bacchae and Hippolytos that provide the focus for study of women, gods, language and structure, and the role of the chorus. To quibble over such matters, though, is otiose; the true verdict on the volume's worth has already been established by students - they have bought it.

University of Warwick S. IRELAND

LUCIA CALBOLI MONTEFUSCO: Exordium Narratio Epilogus: studi sulla teoria retorica greca e romana delle parti del discorso. (Universita degli studi di Bologna, Pubblicazioni del dipartimento di filologia classica e medioevale, 1.) Pp. x+119. Bologna: CLUEB, 1988. Paper. A monograph dealing with the first, second and fifth of the five partes orationis might seem a rather strange thing: why not deal with all five? C.M. explains the choice of topic in the preface: she has already published a study of the third (partitio - see A. Pennecini ed., Studi di retorica oggi in Italia, pp. 69ff.), and is planning a study of the fourth (argumentatio), which will presumably be a much larger undertaking. So exordium, narratio and epilogus are left over for the present book.

The section on narratio will inevitably be the most read. This is an important topic on which no definitive study previously existed (the nearest to it perhaps being Barwick's article 'Die Gliederung der Narratio...' in Hermes for 1928 [pp. 261ff.]). The 55 pages that C.M. gives us are not the last word, but they are an excellent general survey. Special topics dealt with include combinations of narratives; the secondary narrative or rrapaStj'yrcat; the theory of historia, argumentum, and fabula (pp. 43ff.: C.M. sees as primary here the opposition between true narrative [historia] and false narrative [argumentum, fabula], which she traces back to Plato [Rep. 376c]); a brief discussion of the Platonic 'modes' of narrative (Sta /L/xrkaVEWo, $L' adTayyEAL'a, and a mixed form), in so far as these intersect with rhetoric (pp. 55ff.: in this connection she offers a nice critique of Barwick's interpretation of the narrative involving persona referred to by Cicero at De Inventione 1.27: Barwick suggested that this category must have to do with the Platonic 'modes', but C.M. suggests that it refers to a narrative which one approaches from the point of view of the nature of the agent, and she may well be right); there follow valuable discussions of the aXyjarTa 671qyr7auEw (pp. 62ff.: I missed here a reference to Hermogenes 7TrEp liSE?v, 228, 25ff) and of the dpeTrat St7y7auEwst (pp. 65ff.).

I conclude with some minor complaints. Type-setting has been done with a computer, and, though the overall effect is satisfactory, the type-size is a little larger than one is used to, and the Greek is a fraction over-proportioned. I also noticed one or two spelling mistakes, some of them in the Greek.

Harvard University IAN RUTHERFORD

GONSALV K. MAINBERGER: Rhetorica I. Reden mit Vernunft, Aristoteles, Cicero, Augustinus; Rhetorica II. Spiegelungen des Geistes, Sprachfiguren bei Vico und Levi-Strauss. (Problemata, 116 and 117.) 2 vols. Pp. 384, 336. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1987 and 1988. I, DM 68 (Paper, DM 48); II, Paper, DM 48.

Despite the impression given by the title, M.'s subject is not rhetoric itself, but the somewhat broader notion of conjectural reasoning (die vermutende Vernunft), by which he understands reasoning of the sort that people use when dealing with the contingencies of everyday life, a type of reasoning which he thinks is to be distinguished from the reasoning whose object is exact knowledge of non-contingent truths. M. thinks that conjectural reasoning is much more

0009-840X/90 $3.00 ? Oxford University Press 1990

latter, much as one regrets that the brevity of the work made it necessary. So for instance with Aeschylus discussion of his language and imagery, spectacle and theatrical effects, treatment of the gods and human characters, is seen almost exclusively through the Oresteia. In the case of Sophocles it is the Theban plays that form the centre of attention, in Euripides Medea, Bacchae and Hippolytos that provide the focus for study of women, gods, language and structure, and the role of the chorus. To quibble over such matters, though, is otiose; the true verdict on the volume's worth has already been established by students - they have bought it.

University of Warwick S. IRELAND

LUCIA CALBOLI MONTEFUSCO: Exordium Narratio Epilogus: studi sulla teoria retorica greca e romana delle parti del discorso. (Universita degli studi di Bologna, Pubblicazioni del dipartimento di filologia classica e medioevale, 1.) Pp. x+119. Bologna: CLUEB, 1988. Paper. A monograph dealing with the first, second and fifth of the five partes orationis might seem a rather strange thing: why not deal with all five? C.M. explains the choice of topic in the preface: she has already published a study of the third (partitio - see A. Pennecini ed., Studi di retorica oggi in Italia, pp. 69ff.), and is planning a study of the fourth (argumentatio), which will presumably be a much larger undertaking. So exordium, narratio and epilogus are left over for the present book.

The section on narratio will inevitably be the most read. This is an important topic on which no definitive study previously existed (the nearest to it perhaps being Barwick's article 'Die Gliederung der Narratio...' in Hermes for 1928 [pp. 261ff.]). The 55 pages that C.M. gives us are not the last word, but they are an excellent general survey. Special topics dealt with include combinations of narratives; the secondary narrative or rrapaStj'yrcat; the theory of historia, argumentum, and fabula (pp. 43ff.: C.M. sees as primary here the opposition between true narrative [historia] and false narrative [argumentum, fabula], which she traces back to Plato [Rep. 376c]); a brief discussion of the Platonic 'modes' of narrative (Sta /L/xrkaVEWo, $L' adTayyEAL'a, and a mixed form), in so far as these intersect with rhetoric (pp. 55ff.: in this connection she offers a nice critique of Barwick's interpretation of the narrative involving persona referred to by Cicero at De Inventione 1.27: Barwick suggested that this category must have to do with the Platonic 'modes', but C.M. suggests that it refers to a narrative which one approaches from the point of view of the nature of the agent, and she may well be right); there follow valuable discussions of the aXyjarTa 671qyr7auEw (pp. 62ff.: I missed here a reference to Hermogenes 7TrEp liSE?v, 228, 25ff) and of the dpeTrat St7y7auEwst (pp. 65ff.).

I conclude with some minor complaints. Type-setting has been done with a computer, and, though the overall effect is satisfactory, the type-size is a little larger than one is used to, and the Greek is a fraction over-proportioned. I also noticed one or two spelling mistakes, some of them in the Greek.

Harvard University IAN RUTHERFORD

GONSALV K. MAINBERGER: Rhetorica I. Reden mit Vernunft, Aristoteles, Cicero, Augustinus; Rhetorica II. Spiegelungen des Geistes, Sprachfiguren bei Vico und Levi-Strauss. (Problemata, 116 and 117.) 2 vols. Pp. 384, 336. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1987 and 1988. I, DM 68 (Paper, DM 48); II, Paper, DM 48.

Despite the impression given by the title, M.'s subject is not rhetoric itself, but the somewhat broader notion of conjectural reasoning (die vermutende Vernunft), by which he understands reasoning of the sort that people use when dealing with the contingencies of everyday life, a type of reasoning which he thinks is to be distinguished from the reasoning whose object is exact knowledge of non-contingent truths. M. thinks that conjectural reasoning is much more

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