classical Greek rhetoric, topos, pl. topoi, (from Ancient Greek: τόπος "place", elliptical for Ancient Greek: τόπος κοινός tópos koinós, 'common place')...

topos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Topos may refer to: Topos (plural topoi or toposes) – a type of category in mathematics Classifying topos –...

in major European cities. Bohemian is a 19th-century historical and literary topos that places the milieu of young metropolitan artists and intellectuals—particularly...

Locus amoenus (Latin for "pleasant place") is a literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort. A locus amoenus is usually a beautiful...

Women" (German: Weibermacht) is a medieval and Renaissance artistic and literary topos, showing "heroic or wise men dominated by women", presenting "an admonitory...

Mundus inversus, Latin for "world upside-down," is a literary topos in which the natural order of things is overturned and social hierarchies are reversed...

of the population. A typical image for the affluent society is the literary topos of the Cockaigne, a mythical land of luxury goods. Similar terms, used...

dictionary. Linguistics portal Fantasy tropes Invariance principle Literary topos Meme Motif-Index of Folk-Literature Scheme (linguistics) Stereotype...

late-19th and early-20th centuries, writers developed the Yellow Peril literary topos into codified, racialist motifs of narration, especially in stories...

different nationalities. The literary topos of the harem has been classified by some[who?] as a typical example of Western literary orientalism. In December...

seen in art and mentioned in literature as part of the Power of Women literary topos, demonstrating the disruptive force of female attractiveness on men...

a translation of the Latin term locus communis (from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos) which means "a general or common topic", such as a statement...

deity – Gods of boundaries or transitions Limit situation Locus amoenus – Literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort Phase transition –...

units in the Roman army). Roman sources stress, perhaps partially as a literary topos, that the Germanic peoples fought without discipline. Germanic warriors...

set in a walled garden, an example of a locus amoenus, a traditional literary topos in epic poetry and chivalric romance. Forty-five years later, circa...

conflicting artistic pursuits. As a precursor to Sturm und Drang, the literary topos of the Kraftmensch existed among dramatists beginning with F.M. Klinger...

From the second post-war period, however, the realist and neorealist literary topos, the search for a common Christian Democratic political identity in...

and Procopius identified the Bulgars with the Huns in a 6th-century literary topos, in which Ennodius referred to a captured Bulgar horse as "equum Huniscum"...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Commonplace may refer to: Commonplace book Literary topos, the concept in rhetoric based on "commonplaces" or standard topics...

use, "Turks" always referred to Magyars. Such archaizing was a common literary topos, and implied similar geographic origins and nomadic lifestyle but not...

funeral pyre was adapted by Christian hagiographers as a conventional literary topos in the martyrdom of saints. Herodotus, with an English translation by...

fortune became a literary topos and was used frequently in declamation. In fact, the Rota Fortunae became a prime example of a trite topos or meme for Tacitus...

whence, it is said, her remains were later removed to Europe. For the literary topos in hagiography of the miraculous boat, compare the legends of Mac Cuill...

Schultheis argues that provided that the entire conflict was not a literary topos based on the Battle of Marathon, the Alans were placed in the center...

the Argead conquest of Macedonia may be viewed as a commonly used literary topos in classical Macedonian rhetoric. Tales of migration served to create...

Priscian. Supposed Greek origins for the Aricia cult are strictly a literary topos." Arthur E. Gordon, "On the Origin of Diana", Transactions and Proceedings...

(rodcorp) "Giotto's circle, Apelles' lines, Chuang-tzu's crab": Tracing a literary topos. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public...

of female education had become a commonplace one, in other words a literary topos for discussion. Around 1405 Leonardo Bruni wrote De studies et letteris...

"Embracing Vergil’s 'Arcadia': Constructions and representations of a literary topos in the poetry of the Augustans". In: Acta Antiqua 53: 160-161. DOI:...

"Embracing Vergil's ‘Arcadia’: Constructions and representations of a literary topos in the poetry of the Augustans". In: Acta Antiqua 53: 160-161. DOI:...