Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography (Greek Culture in the Roman World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110847490X ISBN 13: 9781108474900

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Interprets the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, an important critic and historian in Rome, in a range of contexts.

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Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his most recent books include Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream (Cambridge, 2012), Hesiodic Voices (Cambridge, 2014), Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book IV (Cambridge, 2015) and The Measure of Homer (Cambridge, 2018). Many of his essays have been collected in the two-volume On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008).

Casper C. de Jonge is Lecturer of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. His research focuses on ancient rhetoric and literary criticism, the history of grammar and scholarship, and Greek intellectuals in Rome. His publications include Between Grammar and Rhetoric: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Language, Linguistics and Literature (2008). He received a grant from the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) for a research project on 'Greek Criticism and Latin Literature'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110847490X
• ISBN 13: 9781108474900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Hunter Richard, De Jonge Casper C.