Meaning of eidolopoeia | Babel Free

Definitions

A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol.

rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The status of the speaker at the time the speech is imagined as being given is what determines whether it is ethopoeia or eidolopoeia. A speech Heracles might have given while alive is an example of ethopoeia, a speech he might have given after death is an eidolopoeia”

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