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Dr Mara Nicosia's Outputs (4)

Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery (2024)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2024). Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery. Le Muséon, 137(1-2), 137-169. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.137.1.3293318

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.

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. 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. 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.