Erasmus on Dogs and Baths and Other Odious Comparisons
Fully aware of an antipathy to comparisons that looks back not only to ancient philosophy and law but to the early modern schoolroom, Erasmus nevertheless puts his full prestige behind the strategy so foundational to the rhetorical theory of Plato, Cicero, Quintilian and Aphthonius. This essay exami...
| Published in: | Erasmus studies |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Brill
2018
|
| In: |
Erasmus studies
|
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance TB Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Comparison
image
parable
Plato
Cicero
Quintilian
Aphthonius
educational reform
rhetoric
Adages
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Fully aware of an antipathy to comparisons that looks back not only to ancient philosophy and law but to the early modern schoolroom, Erasmus nevertheless puts his full prestige behind the strategy so foundational to the rhetorical theory of Plato, Cicero, Quintilian and Aphthonius. This essay examines the key role of comparison in the form of similitudo, parabola or collatio, and imago in Erasmus’ educational reform as represented by his De copia, De ratione studii, and De conscribendis epistolis, as well as in his own literary production, especially his Adages. |
|---|---|
| Contains: | In: Erasmus studies
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18749275-03801003 |