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Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era (2024)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (in press). Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era. Histoire Epistémologie Langage,

This paper investigates the engagement with Greek progymnasmata exercises shown by the first rhetorical handbook in Syriac: Antony of Tagrit’s On Rhetoric (ninth century). Despite lacking any specific reference to progymnastic authors or texts and ha... Read More about Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era.

SYRIAC RHETORICAL LEXICA: TOWARDS THE COMPILATION OF A TRILINGUAL DICTIONARY (2024)
Book Chapter
Nicosia, M. (in press). SYRIAC RHETORICAL LEXICA: TOWARDS THE COMPILATION OF A TRILINGUAL DICTIONARY. In M. Nicosia, & R. Contini (Eds.), Syriac Lexis and Lexica. Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press

The paper discusses the challenges posed by the creation of a trilingual lexicon (Syriac-Greek-Arabic) of the technical vocabulary of rhetoric and its advantages. It will present the selected corpus, the proposed layout of the lemmas, and a selection... Read More about SYRIAC RHETORICAL LEXICA: TOWARDS THE COMPILATION OF A TRILINGUAL DICTIONARY.

Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery (2023)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (in press). Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery. Le Muséon, 137,

Due to the absence of Syriac translations of ancient Greek novels or explicit references to any of them in the Syriac literature, scholars agreed for a long time that these texts never reached Syriac environments. However, in 2008, Aldo Corcella reco... Read More about Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery.

From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words (2020)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2020). From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words. Hugoye (Washington, D.C.), 23(1), 61-97

Rhetoric was part of the borrowed Greek educational system of the Enkyklios paideia, together with logic and grammar. However, the technical terminology had to be adapted, so the question is which strategies were used to create the vocabulary of Syri... Read More about From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words.