The Attic Muse and the Asian Harlot

Classicizing Allegories in Dionysius and Longinus

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ID20076641
AuthorsCasper C de Jonge (corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages388-409
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueValuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004274952_016
OpenAlexW814372453
ISBN9789004274952
LanguageEN
Citations received24

Periodization plays a crucial role in our perception and understanding of the past. Modern histories of Greek literature are traditionally organized by distinguishing an archaic, a classical, a Hellenistic and an Imperial period. The earliest scholar known to us who explicitly states that character of Greek literature fundamentally changed after the death of Alexander is Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Dionysius is most important representative of Greek Atticism and classicism at the end of the first century BCE in Rome. This chapter compares between Dionysius and Longinus, which can contribute to our understanding of Greek classicism in the Roman world and the different forms that it could adopt. Both authors were active in a Roman context, and both addressed their Greek essays to Roman patrons. The chapter focuses on the classical past of Greece and its literary achievements, Greek criticism contributed to the construction of Greek cultural identity in the Roman Empire. Keywords: Alexander; classicism; Dionysius; Greek literature; Hellenistic; Longinus; Periodization; Roman context

Ancient Greek · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Classicism · Greek Literature · Literature · Periodization · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History

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