Meaning of idolopoeia | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The plays' capacity to present⟳ the political actors on stage⟳ as characters actively engaged in interpreting and thus making their way through the very plots that their own⟳ actions and interactions were constituting owed a great deal⟳ to forensic rhetoric and the training in theopoeia (impersonating historical and mythological characters), prosopoeia (impersonating abstractions or 'things unknown'), and idolopoeia (impersonating dead people)”

“Idolopoeia or ghost-making (as a figure⟳ of style) is that which represents a famous person who is really dead and no longer able to speak⟳”

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