I paradigmi mitici nell’agone delle Nuvole di Aristofane: tra distorsioni retoriche e percezione del pubblico

Maria Elena Panebianco

doi:10.13125/rhesis/5627

Maria Elena Panebianco

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/rhesis/5627

Keywords: paradeigma, myth, rhetoric, sophists, reception

Abstract

The article focuses on the mythical paradeigmata in the agon in Clouds. The Worse Speech’s argument relies on mythical paradeigmata, but these are delivered in a clearly manipulated form that affects narrative, aims and contexts of application of the myths. Such a manipulation creates a distance between the Worse Speech’s mythical paradeigmata and the preexisting versions of the same myths. My suggestion is that the distance is acknowledged by the audience, more or less consciously, and that it is precisely through this distance that the message of the drama – the dangers connected to sophistic rhetoric – is conveyed to the audience. This is even more significant with regard to that sector of the audience who did not have the cultural means to detect and appreciate the clever logic and linguistic subtleties deployed by the Worse Speech, but who were familiar with the uses of mythical paradeigmata thanks to literary and dramatic memory.

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