Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
Cambridge University Press, 11/1/2018
EAN 9781108474900, ISBN10: 110847490X
Hardcover, 304 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 2 cm
Language: English
The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29 BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and colleagues, and started to teach rhetoric. He published a history of early Rome (Roman Antiquities), and essays on rhetoric and literary criticism, including On the Ancient Orators, On Composition, and several letters. This volume examines how Dionysius' critical and rhetorical works are connected with his history of Rome, and the complex ways in which both components of this dual project - rhetorical criticism and historiography - fit into the social, intellectual, literary, cultural and political world of Rome under Augustus. How does Dionysius' interpretation of the earliest Romans resonate with the political reality of the Principate? And how do his views relate to those of Cicero, Livy and Horace? This volume casts new light on ancient rhetoric, literary criticism, historiography and the literary culture of Augustan Rome.
Introduction Casper C. de Jonge and Richard Hunter
Part I. Dionysius and Augustan Rhetoric and Literary Criticism
1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the idea of the critic Richard Hunter
2. Experiencing the past
language, time, and historical consciousness in Dionysian criticism Nicolas Wiater
3. Dionysius' Demosthenes and Augustan Atticism Harvey Yunis
4. Dionysius and Lysias' charm Laura Viidebaum
Part II. Dionysius and Augustan Historiography
5. The expansive scale of the Roman Antiquities Stephen P. Oakley
6. Ways of killing women
Dionysius on the deaths of Horatia and Lucretia Clemence Schultze
7. The prehistory of the Roman polis in Dionysius Matthew Fox
Part III. Dionysius and Augustan Rome
8. Dionysius on regime change Christopher Pelling
9. How Roman are the Antiquities? The Decemvirate according to Dionysius Daniel Hogg
10. Dionysius and Horace
composition in Augustan Rome Casper C. de Jonge
Envoi
migrancy Joy Connolly.