Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Origins of Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9308786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamlin Hill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 88-93 |
| Publication date | 1961-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Roman Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0075-4358 • E-ISSN: 1753-528X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/298840 |
| OpenAlex | W2090567015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus is often dismissed as a mere slavish panegyric of Rome, written with no other purpose but to persuade her Greek subjects to acquiesce in her domination. Thus Schwartz, in his Pauly-Wissowa article (v, 934 f.), after describing the work as ‘ein trauriges Dokument dafür, wie tief die geistige Potenz noch mehr als die Bildung der Griechen gesunken war’, accuses Dionysius not only of incompetence as a historian, but also of a lack of the feeling proper to a Greek. Comparing him with Polybius and Posidonius, he writes ‘die tragischen Schmerzen, die jenen echten Hellenen das Begreifen des römischen Primats gekostet hatte, sind dieser kleinen Seele fremd’. He further suggests that Dionysius chose his subject because it was remote from contemporary events and he was not likely to meet much competition
Art · Chose · Humanities · Literature · Panegyric · Poetry · Political science · Subject (documents · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Law · Philosophy
Carthage and Rome
The conquest of Italy
The Expansive Scale of the Roman Antiquities
Pyrrhus
How Roman Are the Antiquities ? The Decemvirate according to Dionysius
The Prehistory of the Roman polis in Dionysius
The recovery of Rome
Ways of Killing Women
Rome in the fifth century II
Experiencing the Past
The Sources for Early Roman History
Dionysius and Horace
Dionysius and Lysias’ Charm
Dionysius’ Demosthenes and Augustan Atticism
Rome and Italy in the early third century
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Idea of the Critic
Dionysius on Regime Change
Sabus and Vacuna
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome
The Cambridge Ancient History
Manufacturing Descent
A Tale of Two Antiquities
History and Rhetoric in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
War and Society in Early Rome
Hellenized Romans and Barbarized Greeks. Reading the End of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.69 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2020 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |