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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εἰδωλοποιία (eidōlopoiía, “formation of images; putting words into the mouth of a dead person”), from εἰδωλοποιός (eidōlopoiós, “producing phantom-like appearances”), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “phantom”) + ποιός (poiós, “-like”).
Noun
eidolopoeia (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol.
2003, “The Preliminary Exercises of Aphthonius the Sophist”, in George Alexander Kennedy, editor, Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, Footnote 79, page 115.: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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