Open AccessLa carta ficticia griega: los nombres de personajes y el uso del encabezamiento en Alcifrón, Aristéneto y Teofilacto
Author(s) -
Jesús Ureña
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1993.v61.i2.445
Subject(s) - humanities , art
The «mimetic» fictitious letter is related closely to the ethopoeia (a preparatory rhetoric exercise consisting of reproducing the words of a character in a given situation). The paper even shows that some of the mimetic letters included in the corpora of Alciphro, Aristaenetus and Theophylactus are true ethopoeiae. We also study the headings of the letters as well as the proper names of characters