The Ideology of Classicism (eBook)

Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Nicolas Wiater (Autor)

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2011
406 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-025911-7 (ISBN)

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This is the first systematic study of Greek classicism, a crucial element of Graeco-Roman culture under Augustus, from the perspective of cultural identity: what vision of the world and their own role in it motivated Greek and Roman intellectuals to commit themselves to reliving the classical Greek past in Augustan Rome? This book will be of interest to scholars working on late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Greek and Roman literature and culture, the Second Sophistic, and ancient cultural identity, as well as intellectual historians of Western thought. All Greek and Latin is translated.

Nicolas Wiater, Universität Bonn, Germany.

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Nicolas Wiater, Universität Bonn, Germany.

Inhalt

Preface 8
Table of Contents 10
1. Introduction: The Aims and Methods of This Study 14
1.1 ‘Webs of Significance’ – A Novel Approach to Dionysius’ Classicism 14
1.1.1 Dionysius’ Classicism as a Cultural Phenomenon 14
1.1.2 Dionysius – an ‘Augustan’Author? 21
1.1.3 A Cultural Identity Approach to Dionysius’ Classicism 31
1.2 The Conceptual Framework of Dionysius’ Classicism 42
1.2.1 Criticismas a Struggle forAuthority 45
1.2.2 Dionysius’ Critical Method as Heir to the Tradition of Classical Rhetoric 53
1.2.3 The Power of the Text: Creating a Discursive Tradition 57
1.2.4 Criticism as Constituent of Communities of Intellectuals 60
1.3 Conclusions 65
2. Reviving the Past: Language and Identity in Dionysius’ Classicism 73
2.1 Introduction: Language and Time in Dionysius’ Classicism 73
FilÏsofoc Rhtorik, Miµhsic, and Continuity 78
2.2.1 Politiko LÏgoi: Learning Classical Identity from Isocrates 78
2.2.2 Classicist Self-Fashioning: Re-enacting the Past through Miµmhsic 90
2.3 Language and Power: Getting the Romans into the Picture 105
2.3.1 Greeks, Romans, Barbarians: Dionysius’ Interpretation ofAugustanRome 105
2.3.2 Dionysius’ Interpretation of the Roman Present inContext 113
2.3.3 Greek or Roman? The Ambiguity of Dionysius’ View of Augustan Rome 120
2.3.4 Coda: How Historical is Dionysius’ Model of History? 123
2.4 Summary 129
3. History and Criticism: The Construction of a Classicist Past 133
3.1 ‘Metahistory’ avant la lettre: Dionysius on Historical Writing 134
3.2 Deconstructing Thucydides 143
3.2.1 Identifying with the Past: Why Herodotus Succeeded where Thucydides Failed 145
3.2.2 Classicist History: Theopompus’ ‘Isocratean’ Approach to the Past 162
3.2.3 Between History and Criticism: Re-writing the MelianDialogue 167
3.3 A Greek Past for the Roman Present: The Project of Dionysius’ Antiquitates 178
3.3.1 The Archaeology of Roman Power 184
3.3.2 Identity and Difference: Be Roman, Go Greek? 211
3.4 Summary 236
4. Knowledge and Elitism: Being a Classicist Critic 239
4.1 Reading and Distinction in Dionysius’ Classicism 243
4.2 ‘Authentic Reading’: Becoming a Classicist Critic 248
4.2.1 The Failures of Scholarship Past: Redressing the Balance between Theory and Practice 248
4.2.2 Misreading Tradition: Deconstructing Chrysippus 252
4.2.3 Refuting the Idea of a ‘Natural Word Order’ 256
4.2.4 On Literary Composition : A Normative Aesthetics of Classical Style 259
4.2.5 Dionysius’ Writings: A Classical Course of Education 270
4.3 The Mysteries of Education: Being an Elite Critic 276
4.3.1 Knowledge and Elitism 277
4.3.2 The Mysteries of Knowledge 280
4.3.3 Classical Politicians and Classicist Readers: Knowledge and Leadership 283
4.4 Summary 290
5. Enacting Distinction: The Interactive Structure of Dionysius’ Writings 292
5.1 Criticism as Dialogic Interaction: Creating an ‘Imagined Community’ of Classicists 294
5.2 Strategies ofDistinction:Out-Group Reading 310
5.2.1 ‘Objective Critic’ vs ‘Subjective Critic’: The Peripatetic on Trial 316
5.2.2 The Aesthetics of Criticism: Dionysius vs the Platonists 323
5.3 Summary 361
6. Conclusions 365
References 374
Indices 400
1. Key Notions, Persons, Places 400
2. Greek Terms 404
3. PassagesDiscussed 405

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2011
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
• Reihe/Serie: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Ancient Greece and Rome • Antikes Griechenland • Antikes Rom • Augustan Rome • Augusteisches Rom • Classicism • Cultural Identity • Dionysius von Halicarnassus • Intellectual history • Kulturelle Identität
• ISBN-10: 3-11-025911-7 / 3110259117
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-025911-7 / 9783110259117