Sérgio Rodrigues de Souza
Philosopher. Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences. Post-Doctorate in Social
Psychology. Email: srgrodriguesdesouza@gmail.com.
Ana Rita César Lustosa
Degree in Visual Arts. Master in Art from the Federal University of
Espírito Santo. Email: lustosaanarita@gmail.com.
ABSTRACT
This essay aims to present
reflections on memory and rhetoric in ancient times. This is a bibliographic
study, based on analytical hermeneutics. As a methodology, for the
accomplishment of this study, the analyzes were carried through researches in
books, considering the main aspects and approaches on the rhetoric and the
influence of the memory in the ancient period, in terms of politics and
religion. It was not about speaking well, it was something far beyond that, the
speaker should sing the sacred songs and hymns, the prayers obeying the same original
phonetic metrics with which they were created. It was a mnemonic discipline
that had never been seen and experienced, with such rigor and obedience to
canonical principles at any other time in human history. Memory was linked to
rhetoric by the fact that there was a whole cult directed to the gods, to the
dead, and they complained that all discourse followed a very straight line, in
terms of phonetic and linguistic ordering. Memory and rhetoric have always been
together, because every good orator and rhetorician must automatically possess
a high degree of mnemonic capacity, which he generally possesses, because when
preparing for an oral exposition, a rigorous argumentation, he must memorize,
not just excerpts, but a whole collection of works and the respective contexts
[semantic, epistemic, philosophical, sociological, syntactic] in which they are
found, as well as how they can weave a decent concatenated dialogue with the
present reality.
Keywords: Memory. Rhetoric. Old age. Policy. Religion.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
novembro 12, 2023
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