The Ideology of Classicism (eBook)

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Nicolas Wiater, Universität Bonn, Germany.

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