Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style
Abstrak
TheGreek rhetorician and historianDionysius ofHalicarnassus was active in Rome at the end of the first century BC.His extant works include a history of early Rome, critical letters, and rhetorical treatises with a focus on style:On Composition, On Imitation, On Thucydides, and On the Ancient Orators, including separate essays on Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, and Demosthenes. Engaged as he was in the oratory, history, and poetry of the classical Greek past, Dionysius himself lived in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Born before BC, he was a contemporary of Virgil andHorace.WhenDionysius arrived in Rome in BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero (– BC) had been dead for more than a decade, but Marcus Terentius Varro (– BC) was still alive. Dionysius used Varro’s Antiquities as one of the principal sources for his own Roman Antiquities, as he indicates in several references. He admired Varro as ‘the most learned man of his age’ (Ant. Rom. .. ἀνὴρ τῶν κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ἡλικίαν ἀκμασάντων πολυπειρότατος). The concept of ‘natural style’ is very prominent in Dionysius’ rhetorical works. He frequently praises the orator Lysias for his natural diction and
Topik & Kata Kunci
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De Jonge
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2019
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1017/9781108671972.008
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- Open Access ✓