Critical Essays, Volume II

Critical Essays, Volume II

by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Stephen Usher
ISBN-10:
0674995139
ISBN-13:
9780674995130
Pub. Date:
01/01/1985
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
0674995139
ISBN-13:
9780674995130
Pub. Date:
01/01/1985
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Critical Essays, Volume II

Critical Essays, Volume II

by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Stephen Usher

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Overview

Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BCE, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BCE, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition.

Dionysius's 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. He advocated the minute study of the styles of the finest prose authors of the fifth and fourth century BCE, especially the Attic orators. His critical essays on these and on the historian Thucydides represent an important development from the somewhat mechanical techniques of rhetorical handbooks to a more sensitive criticism of individual authors. Illustrating his analysis with well-chosen examples, Dionysius preserves a number of important fragments of Lysias and Isaeus.

The essays on those two orators and on Isocrates, Demosthenes and Thucydides comprise Volume I of this edition. Volume II contains three letters to his students; a short essay on the orator Dinarchus; and his finest work, the essay On Literary Composition, which combines rhetoric, grammar and criticism in a manner unique in ancient literature.

The Loeb Classical Library also publishes a seven volume edition of Roman Antiquities, by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a history from earliest times to 264 BCE.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674995130
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1985
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #466
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.90(d)
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Stephen Usher was Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway College.

Table of Contents

Introduction To Vol. II: The Text

On Literary Composition——Introduction.

On Literary Composition

Dinarchus——Introduction

Dinarchus

First Letter To Ammaeus——Introduction.

First Letter To Ammaeus

Letter To Gnaeus Pompeius——Introduction.

Letter To Gnaeus Pompeius

Second Letter To Ammaeus——Introduction.

Second Letter To Ammaeus

Index

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