Critical Essays, Volume I: Ancient Orators. Lysias.
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Diong>onong>ysius of Halicarnassus / Diong>onong>ysius / Diong>onong>ysius of Halicarnassus, Of Halicarnassus, PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, Diong>onong>ysius of Halicarnassus had migrated ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g> Rome by 30 BCE, where he lived until ong>hisong> death some time after 8 BCE, writing ong>hisong> "Roman Antiquities" and teaching the art of rheong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>ric and literary compositiong>onong>. Diong>onong>ysius's purpose, both in ong>hisong> own work and in ong>hisong> teaching, was ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g> re-establish the classical Attic standards of purity, inventiong>onong> and taste in order ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g> 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 oraong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>rs. ong>Hisong> critical essays ong>onong> these and ong>onong> the ong>hisong>ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>rian Thucydides represent an important development from the somewhat mechanical techniques of rheong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>rical handbooks ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g> a more sensitive criticism of individual authors. Illustrating ong>hisong> analysis with well-chosen examples, Diong>onong>ysius preserves a number of important fragments of Lysias and Isaeus. The essays ong>onong> those two oraong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>rs and ong>onong> Isocrates, Demosthenes and Thucydides comprise Volume I of tong>hisong> editiong>onong>. Volume II cong>onong>tains three ong>onong>g>letterong>onong>g>s ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g> ong>hisong> students; a short essay ong>onong> the oraong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>r Dinarchus; and ong>hisong> finest work, the essay "ong>Onong> Literary Compositiong>onong>, " which combines rheong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>ric, grammar and criticism in a manner unique in ancient literature. The Loeb Classical Library also publishes a seven volume editiong>onong> of "Roman Antiquities, " by Diong>onong>ysius of Halicarnassus, a ong>hisong>ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g>ry from earliest times ong>onong>g>toong>onong>g> 264 BCE.