The Critical Essays. In two volumes. Vol. II

Harvard University Press - Heinemann, 1985

''The Loeb classical library'' - Volume rilegato in tela editoriale verde con sovraccoperta, xiv-440 pagine con testo greco a fronte; a cura e con traduzione inglese di Stephen Usher. Contenuti: On Literary Composition; Dinarchus; Letters to Ammaeus and Pompeius. Copia in perfetto stato -- 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.

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• Editore: Harvard University Press - Heinemann
• Tipologia: Libro usato vintage
• Copertina: hardcover
• Anno edizione: 1985
• Pagine: 440 p.
• EAN: 2570252143636

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• Condizioni: Usato - Come Nuovo