History and rhetoric in analysis of the book Persian War's proem

Abstract

The rediscovery of rhetoric in an academic setting led to expansion of the hermeneutic sense aggregated to the term, revealing its potential as a theory of discourse comprehension. The aim of this article is to show a rhetorical reading as a possible approach to the historical document, by the interpretation of the Persian War Ìs proem, written by Procopius of Caesarea, in the sixth century AD.