Parler de l’autre pour parler de soi : le Panathénaïque ou l’art de la περιαυτολογία

Abstract

While it celebrates the city of Athens, the Panathenaicus also appears, in many ways, as an eulogy of Isocrates. In this literary testament, the orator indeed makes use of new strategies to celebrate his talents and to impose the idea of ​​his exceptional singularity, while avoiding the usual criticisms against periautologia. The Panathenaicus can thus be viewed as a place where one can experiment different ways of speaking about oneself, a laudatory speech in which the author of the speech, while praising the city, is given the opportunity to draw his own portrait, making himself ultimately the real subject of the dialogue.

Keywords

• Auto-représentation
• Éloge
• Isocrate
• Periautologia
• Réception