Research Catalog

Title

Critical essays / Dionysius Of Halicarnassus ; with an English translation by Stephen Usher.

Author

Dionysius, of Halicarnassus

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1974-1985.
• Ann Arbor, Michigan : Edwards Brothers ; [place of manufacture not identified] : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, [date of manufacture not identified]
• ©1974-1985

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Details

Additional Authors

Usher, Stephen, 1931-

Description

2 volumes (xxxv, 640; xiv, 440 pages); 17 cm

Summary

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS migrated to Rome in 300 B.C., where he lived until his death some time after 8 B.C., writing his Roman Antiquities in twenty books and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition to a small group of upper-class Romans. His purpose, both in his own work and in his teaching, was to re-establish the classical Attic standards of purity, invention and taste in order to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. The essays in the present volume display the full range of Dionysius' critical expertise. In the treatise On Literary Composition, his finest and most original work, discussion of the effects produced by the arrangement of words involves minute analysis of phonetics and metre in addition to more general aspects of literary aesthetics such as the difference between poetry and prose, and the tripartite classification of the types of arrangement. The other four essays are on a less ambitious scale. The Dinarchus is primarily a study of authenticity in which Dionysius attempts to identify the genuine speeches of the latest Attic orator from the list of those ascribed to him by the librarians. The three literary letters are all concerned with possible models. In the Letter to Pompeius, Dionysius gives his reasons for criticizing Plato on stylistic and also moral grounds, and appends critiques of Herodotus, whom he greatly admired, and three other historians -- Xenophon, Philistus and Theopompus. Of the two Letters to Ammaeus, the second may be read as an appendix to the Thucydides, but the first concerns literary history, and investigates the question of whether Demosthenes could have learnt his oratorical skills from Aristotle's Rhetoric. Volume I contains the essays On the Ancient Orators, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, Demosthenes, and Thucydides.

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; 465-466

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. English & Greek. 1974
• Loeb classical library ; 465-466.

Alternative Title

Works. 1974

Subjects

• Greek literature
• Rhetoric, Ancient > Early works to 1800

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Parallel Greek text and English translation.

Contents

[Volume] I. The ancient orators ; Lysias ; Isocrates ; Iseaus ; On the style of Demosthenes ; Thucydides -- [volume] II. On literary composition ; Dinarchus ; First letter to Ammaeus ; Letter to Gnaeus Pompeius ; Second letter to Ammaeus.

Call Number

PA3611

ISBN

• 0674995120
• 9780674995123
• 0674995139
• 9780674995130

OCLC

907468290

Author

Dionysius, of Halicarnassus, author.

Title

Critical essays / Dionysius Of Halicarnassus ; with an English translation by Stephen Usher.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1974-1985.

Manufacturer

Ann Arbor, Michigan : Edwards Brothers ; [place of manufacture not identified] : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, [date of manufacture not identified]

Copyright Date

©1974-1985

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Loeb classical library ; 465-466

Loeb classical library ; 465-466.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Parallel Greek text and English translation.

Added Author

Usher, Stephen, 1931- translator.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA3611 .D5651