APOLOGIA AS A GENRE

Apologia as a genre

Apologia as a genre

The term apologia has been traced back to the ancient Greek origin phrase apologos, significance “a story”.(Miller,2004) It first appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as apoloyia—apo, significance “away,” and loyia, significance “speaking”—and is characterised as a speech in defense or as a vindication of a person. In ancient Greece, such a defense was considered as an significant genre of rhetoric. Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle all describe apologia as a specific genre in which an orator defends himself or his actions against an accusation.(Alfred, 2004)

Drawing on this ancient genre of rhetoric, connection ...