Rethoric and Reception of Peisistratos’ Tyranny in Correio da Liberdade Newspaper (Porto Alegre, Brasil, 1831)

Abstract

This article is the result of research in progress conducted in connection with a project to study both the Rhetoric as textual analysis tool and the Reception of Antiquity by newspapers from the Brazilian South in the 19th century. I analyze specially articles of the Correio da Liberdade, published in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the year 1831. I firstly evaluate the classical rhetorical resources used to persuade the readers; secondly, I analyze the peculiar appropriation of the Athenian tyranny of Peisistratos in an article about the Brazilian political regime of that time.