id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-16943	Iglesias-Zoido, Juan Carlos	Speech and Narrative Setting in Herodian’s History: Marcus Aurelius and Pertinax	2023	33	.pdf	application/pdf	11588	380	50	This address is very different from other examples of military speech found throughout Herodian’s work, which are much more rhetorically elaborate, e.g. the harangues pronounced by figures like Septimius Severus (2.10.2–9, 3.6.1–7), Macrinus (4.14.5–8), or Alexander Severus (6.3.3–7), that appropriately use the so-called τελικὰ κεφάλαια in their argumentation.48 These παρακλήσεις reveal Herodian’s good knowledge of the rhetorical keys for this type of speech,49 to the extent that they even merited the honor of being selected as examples of military exhortation in Byzantine times.50 In a way, it is as if the historian, who is very familiar with this kind of speech, had opted in Laetus’ case for a type of speech that does not seek genuine persuasion before an unfavorable military audience but a simple conveying of a fait accompli. By narrative setting I refer to a complex structure with three levels (the terms immediately preceding the speech itself, the sentence that contains them, and the broader oratorical context) used by Classical-era historians, such as Thucydides, to introduce speeches in their narratives.1 These settings serve crucial goals: they define where and when a speech is uttered, characterize the speaker, and create a referential and pragmatic framework that aims to condition the readerly response.	cache/grbs-16943.pdf	txt/grbs-16943.txt