Open AccessKrisztus és Tritonia Pallas
Author(s) -
Zoltán Csehy,
Anikó Polgár
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
studia litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2063-1049
pISSN - 0562-2867
DOI - 10.37415/studia/2013/52/4203
Subject(s) - rhetorical question , allegory , fides , philosophy , philology , literature , classics , art , theology , sociology , gender studies , faith , feminism
The paper focuses on the speech entitled Oratio in Electivo Provinciali dicta Anno 1782 by the Hungarian poet Pál Ányos (OSzK Quart. Hung. 1311). The authors analyse the structure and the rhetorical construction of the oration and put foward a proposal for some philological corrections of the previously edited text. Ányos used the allegory of the cardinal virtues as prudentia (David), amor in filios (Moses), fides, iustitia (Joshua), fortitudo, dicendi libertas (Daniel), and had harmonized the ancient (borrowed mainly from Aristotle and Plutarch) and biblical elements in a masterly manner.