Canons of style in the Antonine age : idea-theory in its literary context / Ian Rutherford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutherford, Ian, 1959-

Series:

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek prose literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Greek prose literature.

Hermogenes, 2nd century. Peri ideōn.

Hermogenes.

Criticism.

History.

Greece--History--146 B.C.-323 A.D.

Greece.

Criticism--Greece--History.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

viii, 168 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

This is a study of the relationship between Greek prose literature of the Antonine Age in the second century AD (the Second Sophistic) and idea-theory, a type of literary stylistics best known from the Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus. The author considers sophistic declamation, the relative value attributed to prose and poetry, attitudes towards Xenophon and Demosthenes, and the reputation of Aelius Aristides.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-163) and indexes.

ISBN:

0198147295

OCLC:

35718615