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Wiener Studien Band 124/2011Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
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Wiener Studien 124/2011, pp. 95-116, 2011/11/07
Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
The encomiastic orations in Choricius’ corpus (orr. I –VIII F. -R.) represent a vivid witness of 6th century Gaza in Palestine. My work aims to describe some aspects of culture and ideology through the portraits of some outstanding members of the local leading class, who tend to be offered as exemplar figures: the bishop (I/II), two city leaders (III/IV), some students (V/VI), an aging aristocratic woman (VII), a professor of rhetoric (VIII). That is why it is possible to discover, by the analysis of the topoi of the encomium in its different patterns and behind them, the values the author shared with his late antique audience and their cultural common expectations.