Rhetorica ad Herennium

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The Rhetorica ad Herennium in the manuscript Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Pal. lat. 1459, fol. 1r (14th century)

The oldest completely preserved rhetorical prose writing in Latin is called Rhetorica ad Herennium . The title is formed after the recipient, and accordingly the unknown author is called "auctor ad Herennium". An author, Quintus Cornificius, who is mentioned in Quintilian 3: 1, 21, is generally rejected, and the attribution to Cicero , which arose in antiquity , is certainly wrong . However, it has led to the fact that the treatise was handed down in the corpus of his rhetorical works and, at least for this reason, was widely used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The work probably dates from the 80s of the 1st century BC, like Cicero's youth work De inventione , with which it has other similarities. Both represent the lost theory of eloquence since Aristotle's rhetoric , and they probably go back to a manual that was already written in Latin, as can be seen from a number of largely word-for-word passages. In four books, the work presents the entire systematics of the ancient theory of rhetoric , thoroughly practice-related, with a particular breadth of the doctrine of the discovery of the material, the inventio, which also deals with Cicero's unfinished work. The author differs from him stylistically, but also in his basic political stance.

Editions and translations

  • Incerti auctoris de ratione dicendi ad C. Herennium lib. IV. Ed. By Fridericus Marx . Teubner, Stuttgart 1993 (reprint of the 1923 edition), ISBN 3-8154-1169-6 .
  • Cornifici Rhetorica ad C. Herennium (= Edizioni e saggi universitari di filologia classica 11). Edited by Gualtiero Calboli. Pàtron, Bologna 1969 (critical edition with commentary).
  • Rhétorique à Herennius. Edited by Guy Achard. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-251-01346-6 (edition with French translation).
  • Rhetorica ad Herennium. Edited by Theodor Nüßlein. Artemis & Winkler, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7608-1672-X (with translation).
  • Rhetorica ad Herennium. Ed. And transl. by Thierry Hirsch. Reclam, Ditzingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-15-019605-2 .

literature

Overview display

  • Michael von Albrecht : History of Roman literature from Andronicus to Boethius and its continued effect . Volume 1. 3rd, improved and expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026525-5 , pp. 495–498.

Investigations

reception

  • Anton Hafner: Investigations into the transmission history of the rhetoric ad Herennium (= European university publications. Series 15: Classical languages ​​and literatures. Volume 45). Lang, Bern a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-261-04167-6 .
  • Christoph G. Leidl: Cicero. B. De inventione and Rhetorica ad Herennium. In: Christine Walde (Ed.): The reception of ancient literature. Kulturhistorisches Werklexikon (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 7). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02034-5 , Sp. 214–229.

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