Per una storia emica di παροιμία e γνώμη in Grecia antica

Name: Per una storia emica di παροιμία e γνώμη in Grecia antica
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AEVUM ANTIQUUM

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AEVUM ANTIQUUM - 2024 - 24. Usi e riusi di proverbi classici

Titolo

Per una storia emica di παροιμία e γνώμη in Grecia antica

For an Emic History of παροιμία and γνώμη in Ancient Greece

Autore

Emanuele Lelli

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Vita e Pensiero

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11-2024

Doi

10.26350/020747_000125

Issn

1121-8932 (stampa) | 1827-7861 (digitale)

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Through a linguistic and philological examination of the thousands of occurrences known to us, it is possible to delineate a culturally and anthropologically emic history of ancient Greek proverbial and sententious terminology. The Greeks used the term παροιμία, from its earliest attestations in the mid-5th century BCE until at least the early Imperial period, to indicate short forms characterized by their shareability and traditional nature (παλαιά), metaphorical yet always devoid of authorship. From the 2nd century CE onwards, this semantic field gradually expands to encompass idiomatic expressions, short authored forms (or presumed to be such), and compiled collections entitled παροιμίαι, which may include verses by known authors or aphorisms. The term γνώμη, signifying authoritative opinions, primarily authored and non-metaphorical, possibly influenced by judicial and assembly terminology (Thucydides, Gorgias), as well as medical discourse (Hippocrates), from the mid-4th century BCE onwards, came to denote sententious verses by poets or ‘sayings’ attributed to the revered σοφοί of the past, predominantly in meter. From the 1st-2nd century CE onwards, influenced by rhetorical theorizations, the term γνώμη undergoes a semantic expansion: γνῶμαι, in general, could denote authored or anonymous sayings, proverbs and excerpts from wise men, even extended ones, with any sententious and moral character (τὰ γνωμικά).