Wiater The Ideology of Classicism

Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025911-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 105, 406 Seiten

Reihe: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und GeschichteISSN

So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. proposes a novel approach to Dionysius’ œuvre as a whole by providing the first systematic study of Greek classicism from the perspective of cultural identity. Drawing on cultural anthropology and Social Identity Theory, Wiater explores the world-view bound up with classicist criticism. Only from within this ideological framework can we understand why Greek and Roman intellectuals in Augustan Rome strove to speak and write like Demosthenes, Lysias, and Isocrates.

Topics addressed by this study include Dionysius’ view of the classical past; mimesis and the aesthetics of reading; language and identity; Dionysius’ view of the Romans, their power and the role of Greek culture within it; Greek classicism and the contemporary controversy about identity among Roman intellectuals; the self-image as Greek intellectuals in the Roman empire of Dionysius and his addressees; the dialogic design of Dionysius’ essays and how it implements a sense of elitism and distinction; Dionysius’ attitudes towards communities competing with him for leadership in rhetorical education and criticism, such as the Peripatetics and Stoics.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiater, Nicolas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;8
2;Table of Contents;10
3;1. Introduction: The Aims and Methods of This Study;14
3.1;1.1 ‘Webs of Significance’ – A Novel Approach to Dionysius’ Classicism;14
3.1.1;1.1.1 Dionysius’ Classicism as a Cultural Phenomenon;14
3.1.2;1.1.2 Dionysius – an ‘Augustan’Author?;21
3.1.3;1.1.3 A Cultural Identity Approach to Dionysius’ Classicism;31
3.2;1.2 The Conceptual Framework of Dionysius’ Classicism;42
3.2.1;1.2.1 Criticismas a Struggle forAuthority;45
3.2.2;1.2.2 Dionysius’ Critical Method as Heir to the Tradition of Classical Rhetoric;53
3.2.3;1.2.3 The Power of the Text: Creating a Discursive Tradition;57
3.2.4;1.2.4 Criticism as Constituent of Communities of Intellectuals;60
3.3;1.3 Conclusions;65
4;2. Reviving the Past: Language and Identity in Dionysius’ Classicism;73
4.1;2.1 Introduction: Language and Time in Dionysius’ Classicism;73
4.2;FilÏsofoc Rhtorik, Miµhsic, and Continuity;78
4.2.1;2.2.1 Politiko LÏgoi: Learning Classical Identity from Isocrates;78
4.2.2;2.2.2 Classicist Self-Fashioning: Re-enacting the Past through Miµmhsic;90
4.3;2.3 Language and Power: Getting the Romans into the Picture;105
4.3.1;2.3.1 Greeks, Romans, Barbarians: Dionysius’ Interpretation ofAugustanRome;105
4.3.2;2.3.2 Dionysius’ Interpretation of the Roman Present inContext;113
4.3.3;2.3.3 Greek or Roman? The Ambiguity of Dionysius’ View of Augustan Rome;120
4.3.4;2.3.4 Coda: How Historical is Dionysius’ Model of History?;123
4.4;2.4 Summary;129
5;3. History and Criticism: The Construction of a Classicist Past;133
5.1;3.1 ‘Metahistory’ avant la lettre: Dionysius on Historical Writing;134
5.2;3.2 Deconstructing Thucydides;143
5.2.1;3.2.1 Identifying with the Past: Why Herodotus Succeeded where Thucydides Failed;145
5.2.2;3.2.2 Classicist History: Theopompus’ ‘Isocratean’ Approach to the Past;162
5.2.3;3.2.3 Between History and Criticism: Re-writing the MelianDialogue;167
5.3;3.3 A Greek Past for the Roman Present: The Project of Dionysius’ Antiquitates;178
5.3.1;3.3.1 The Archaeology of Roman Power;184
5.3.2;3.3.2 Identity and Difference: Be Roman, Go Greek?;211
5.4;3.4 Summary;236
6;4. Knowledge and Elitism: Being a Classicist Critic;239
6.1;4.1 Reading and Distinction in Dionysius’ Classicism;243
6.2;4.2 ‘Authentic Reading’: Becoming a Classicist Critic;248
6.2.1;4.2.1 The Failures of Scholarship Past: Redressing the Balance between Theory and Practice;248
6.2.2;4.2.2 Misreading Tradition: Deconstructing Chrysippus;252
6.2.3;4.2.3 Refuting the Idea of a ‘Natural Word Order’;256
6.2.4;4.2.4 On Literary Composition : A Normative Aesthetics of Classical Style;259
6.2.5;4.2.5 Dionysius’ Writings: A Classical Course of Education;270
6.3;4.3 The Mysteries of Education: Being an Elite Critic;276
6.3.1;4.3.1 Knowledge and Elitism;277
6.3.2;4.3.2 The Mysteries of Knowledge;280
6.3.3;4.3.3 Classical Politicians and Classicist Readers: Knowledge and Leadership;283
6.4;4.4 Summary;290
7;5. Enacting Distinction: The Interactive Structure of Dionysius’ Writings;292
7.1;5.1 Criticism as Dialogic Interaction: Creating an ‘Imagined Community’ of Classicists;294
7.2;5.2 Strategies ofDistinction:Out-Group Reading;310
7.2.1;5.2.1 ‘Objective Critic’ vs ‘Subjective Critic’: The Peripatetic on Trial;316
7.2.2;5.2.2 The Aesthetics of Criticism: Dionysius vs the Platonists;323
7.3;5.3 Summary;361
8;6. Conclusions;365
9;References;374
10;Indices;400
10.1;1. Key Notions, Persons, Places;400
10.2;2. Greek Terms;404
10.3;3. PassagesDiscussed;405

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolas Wiater, Universität Bonn, Germany.