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grbs-12411	Nadeau, Ray	Classical Systems of Stases in Greek: Hermagoras to Hermogenes	1959	20	.pdf	application/pdf	6305	294	59	51 CLASSICAL SYSTEMS OF STASES IN GREEK: HERMAGORAS TO HERMOGENES RAY NADEAU I NSETTING FORTH THE FIRST FORMAL PLAN for pinpointing the main and subordinate stases (issues) of a problem, Hermagoras of Temnos established the basic pattern for later systems.1 This paper is a sketch of the early history of systems of stases in Greek from their beginning in the second century B.C. to the time of Hermogenes in the second century A.D. The pre-Hermagorean evolution of a theory of stases is obscure. Under Her­ magoras, epideictic stasis is mentioned but no subordinate stases are given, either because his treatment of this area is lost or, more probably, because the traditional topics were taken for granted; under Hermogenes, epideictic is omitted from the formal stasis system but this omission is due, in my opinion, to ancient recognition of the fact that a speech which was epideictic in theme and in form could also be deliberative or forensic in its aims-epideictic stasis, then, would usually occur in epideictic-deliberative or in epideictic-forensic situ­ ations rather than those of pure epideictic-display.44 Neither writer goes into any detail on deliberative stasis, another area for which sub-topics were traditiona1.45 For another differ­ ence, the legal questions of Hermagoras become legal stases in Hermogenes; however, they had been so considered by some writers as early as the first century B.C.46	cache/grbs-12411.pdf	txt/grbs-12411.txt