LES FIGURES DE RHÉTORIQUE ET L’ANTITHÈSE DANS LA NARRATION ALLÉGORIQUE DE LA MOSAÏQUE DE LA MAISON D’AIÔN À PAPHOS (CHYPRE)
LES FIGURES DE RHÉTORIQUE ET L’ANTITHÈSE DANS LA NARRATION ALLÉGORIQUE DE LA MOSAÏQUE DE LA MAISON D’AIÔN À PAPHOS (CHYPRE)

Author(s): Marek Tycjan Olszewski
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Roman visual art; Roman mosaics; ancient rhetoric; antithesis; allegory; Pagans and Christians; Cyprus; Late Antiquity
Summary/Abstract: The author observes that the mosaic of the House of Aion (Nea Paphos, Cyprus) employs rhetorical figures in its iconographic program, including analogy, personification, allegory, and, in the first line, antithesis. The rhetoric and its figurative language is a constant element of speeches and writings since the fifth century BC until almost the fifth century AD. Yet, this method of reasoning, argumentation and persuasion is also used in the narrative and polemical language of Roman iconography. The paper is a “case study” of the employment of rhetorical methods in the Roman visual art and especially in Roman mosaics.

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