{"product_id":"critical-essays-volume-ii","title":"Critical Essays, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA master of ancient Greek prose styles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BC, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BC, writing his \u003ci\u003eRoman Antiquities\u003c\/i\u003e and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dionysius’ purpose, both in his own work and in his teaching, was to  re-establish the classical Attic standards of purity, invention, and  taste in order to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language  of the Mediterranean world. He advocated the minute study of the styles  of the finest prose authors of the fifth and fourth centuries BC,  especially the Attic orators. His critical essays on these and on the  historian Thucydides represent an important development from the  somewhat mechanical techniques of rhetorical handbooks to a more  sensitive criticism of individual authors. Illustrating his analysis  with well-chosen examples, Dionysius preserves a number of important  fragments of Lysias and Isaeus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The essays on those two orators and on Isocrates, Demosthenes, and  Thucydides comprise Volume I of this edition. Volume II contains three  letters to his students; a short essay on the orator Dinarchus; and his  finest work, the essay \u003ci\u003eOn Literary Composition\u003c\/i\u003e, which combines rhetoric, grammar, and criticism in a manner unique in ancient literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library also publishes a seven-volume edition of \u003ci\u003eRoman Antiquities,\u003c\/i\u003e by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a history from earliest times to 264 BC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232055873880,"sku":"9780674995130","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674995130_2a509a99-a7ad-4bab-aeca-4ca9e98022ee.jpg?v=1778816754","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/critical-essays-volume-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}