Abstract
It is now well established that rhetoric occupied an important place in the educational system of Greco-Roman antiquity. In recent years, scholarly interest in this discipline has intensified, paving the way for significant advances, particularly in the editing and study of technical texts handed down through manuscript tradition. Among these sources are, of course, the progymnasmata manuals, or " preparatory exercises ", which constituted the first stage of training. This documentation already gives us an idea of how the lectures on rhetoric were organized and the theoretical basis on which they were based. For the historian of rhetoric, however, papyri are also an important source of evidence : they bear witness to daily teaching practice, and sometimes to new developments or exercises, providing a privileged window onto the way rhetoric was taught. Based on a selection of documents, this presentation aims to show the concrete contribution of papyrological sources to our understanding of progymnasmatareadings, by exploring their theoretical and practical aspects.
