Altercatio
The altercatio ( Latin altercatio "exchange of words") is a rhetorical form of the ancient court speech ( genus iudiciale ) from argumentative speech and counter-speech within the same speaker's perspective. It was partly used eristically , so u. a. in Plato's Apology of Socrates (Chapter 24, presentation of the charges and their refutation).
In medieval poetry, the term referred to the controversial poem in general. He also appeared in titles such as B. Altercatio Phyllidis et Florae (13th century).
literature
- Rudolf Wilhelm Lenzen: Tradition historical and author studies on the Latin love poetry of France in the high Middle Ages . Dissertation. Bonn 1973
- Hugo Oscar Bizzarri: Diálogo de Epicteto y el emperador Adriano: derivaciones de un texto escolar en el siglo XIII . Frankfurt am Main 1995. ISBN 3-89354-470-4