Λογος στηλιτευτικο: Is This a Name of the Genre?
About the Origin of Neologism στηλιτευτικ and its meaning
Abstract
One of the first questions that arise when considering the speeches of St Gregory the Theologian Κατα Ιουλιανου Βασιλεως (Or. 4-5) is the question of their genre1. The speeches are respectively called Στηλιτευτικος πρωτος and δευτερος, which may be tentatively translated as "First and second denunciatory speech". Ps.-Nonne, the sixth-century Alexandrian commentator, in a preface to an interpretation of our speeches argues that they are some kind of invective
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