Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PHBE (“Placing history before the eyes: enargeia and ekphrasis from ancient historiography to contemporary historical representations”)

The project aimed at studying the uses of a rhetorical technique, enargeia or “vividness”, in ancient Greek and Latin historians contemporary to the Second Sophistic (I-III centuries AD) and to our main sources on rhetorical training in Antiquity. It also aimed at...