ABSTRACT
This article is the result of research in progress conducted in connection with a project to study both the Reception of Antiquity by newspapers from the Brazilian South in the 19th century and the Rhetoric as textual analysis tool. I analyze specially articles of Correio da Liberdade, published in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the year 1831. I firstly evaluate some 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 revealing part of the chain of receptions to which it belongs.
Keywords:
Reception History of Antiquity in Brazil; rhetoric; tyranny; Ancient History