Corpus Hermogenianum and Its Exegetical Tradition in the Middle Byzantine Period

Aglae Pizzone is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Greek in the Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study at that university.

• Part I. Conceptual Nodes.- 1. The Organon of Rhetoric: An Anonymous Byzantine Discussion on Porphyry’s Isagoge, the Corpus of Hermogenes, and the Rhetorical Curriculum (Byron MacDougall).-  2. Guided by Method. Spatial and Temporal Negotiations of techne in the Byzantine Hermogenian Tradition (Aglae Pizzone).- 3. Visualization Strategies in the corpus Hermogenianum: Preliminary Remarks on Byzantine Rhetorical Diagrams (Chiara D’Agostini).- 4. Diagrams and the Visual-Oral Nexus in Argumentation Training (Vessela Valiavitcharska). Part II. Exegetical Networks.- 5. Christian Rhetoric in John of Sardis’ Commentary on Pseudo-Hermogenes’ On Invention (Daria Resh).- 6. John Geometres’ Commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus’ Oration 45 (Maria Mushinskaya).- 7. John Tzetzes and Minucianus: Polemic and Self-Representation in the Commentary on Hermogenes (Elisabetta Barili).- 8. In the Footsteps of John Geometres: A Comparative Study of Four Byzantine Commentaries on Pseudo-Hermogenes’ "On the Method of Forceful Speaking" (Anna Bistaffa).- 9. Interpretive Strategies and Exegetical Polyphony in the Commentary on Pseudo-Hermogenes’ On the Method of Forceful Speaking by Gregory of Corinth  (Baukje van den Berg).