Deuterology
Deuterology or Deuterologia ( Greek δευτερολογία "second speech") refers to the speech of a second speaker in court. The speaker speaks about the same subject already presented by the previous speaker and enriches it with support.
In deuterology, therefore, the issue that is up for negotiation is dealt with in a recapitulating manner and in a different, usually even more haunting, presentation. The second speech can thus become the actual main speech.
A special feature is usually the lack of a (long and introductory) proömium , so that the speaker immediately brings up his topic without further ado.
The speech against Leptines of Demosthenes in ancient Athens of the 4th century BC BC gives an example of a deuterology.
literature
- Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier , Georg Friedrich Schömann : The Attic Proceß. Halle 1824, pp. 707–713.
- Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti : Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum Rhetoricae. Leipzig 1795, p. 71.
- Theodor Thalheim : Δευτερολογία. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1893ff., Col. 282 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Demosthenes, Orationes 20.