Les Progymnasmata en pratique, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Copte small-scale portraits of kings first

small-scale portraits of kings first appear in the courts of Philip II and his son

Georges Mélies

revealing rich and colorful forms

by Jacqueline de Romilly I

Supplément n°19 à Transeuphratène

Les Progymnasmata en pratique, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Copte small-scale portraits of kings firstThe progymnasmata (preparatory rhetorical exercises) are a set of speech forms considered fundamental and complementary: in the most widespread list (that of Aphthonios), there are twelve of them: the fable, the story, the chria, the maxim, the contestation (and confirmation), the commonplace, the praise (and blame), the parallel, the ethopoeia, the description, the thesis and the proposition of law. Organized in a progressive series, supplemented by