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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.

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So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. The Ideology of Classicism 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 Roman 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.

Classicism - Greece - History. --- Classicism -- Greece -- History. --- Dionysius - Criticism and interpretation. --- Dionysius, -- of Halicarnassus -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses. --- Classicism --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History --- Pseudo-classicism --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Civilization, Classical --- E-books --- History. --- Dionysius, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Denys, --- Dionigi, --- Dionisio, --- Dionizjusz, --- Dionysios, --- Halicarnassus, Dionysius of --- Διονύσιος, --- Pseudo-Dionysius, --- Classicism - Greece - History --- Classicism -- Greece -- History --- Dionysius - Criticism and interpretation --- Dionysius, -- of Halicarnassus -- Criticism and interpretation --- Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses --- Denys d'Halicarnasse --- Dionigi di Alicarnasso --- Dionysius Halicarnaseus --- Dionysius van Halicarnassus --- Ancient Greece and Rome. --- Augustan Rome. --- Classicism. --- Cultural Identity. --- Intellectual History.