Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory and Its Literary Context

by Ian Rutherford

Overview

An examination of the relationship between stylistic theory and the Greek literature of the 'Second Sophite', a renaissance of Greek culture which reached its height during the 2nd century AD. Oratory, the novel and collections or descriptions of artworks and scenes were among the genres that flourished during this period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198147299
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	11/28/1998
Series:	Oxford Classical Monographs Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Literature and Rhetoric in the Second Century CE		1	(5)
I. Idea-Theory		6	(16)
1. The Major Sources		6	(4)
2. The System of Stylistic Qualities and its Background		10	(8)
3. Hermogenes on Demosthenes		18	(4)
II. Sophistic Influences		22	(15)
1. The Sophistic Style in Peri Ideon		22	(3)
2. The Contribution of Sophistic Declamation to the Theory of Ideai		25	(6)
3. Technique and its Appearance		31	(6)
III. Politikos and Panegurikos: The Reading List in Peri Ideon		37	(17)
1. Hermogenes' Survey of Literature		37	(2)
2. Earlier Reading Lists		39	(4)
3. The Origin of the Categories XXX and XXX		43	(4)
4. Demosthenes and Plato		47	(5)
5. The Function of the List		52	(2)
IV. The Position of Poetry		54	(10)
1. Poetry in Peri Ideon		55	(3)
2. Poetry and Religion		58	(3)
3. Homer and Demosthenes		61	(3)
V. Xenophon: Kanon of Apheleia		64	(16)
1. Stylistic Readings of Xenophon		64	(10)
2. Hermogenes' Appropriation of 'AXXX		74	(6)
VI. The Demosthenic Canon		80	(16)
1. The Canon Extended		80	(8)
2. Contemporary Relevance for a Demosthenic Speech?		88	(8)
VII. Aelius Aristides		96	(9)
1. Aristides and the Rhetorical Ideal		96	(5)
2. Aristides, Hermogenes, and the Canon		101	(4)
Appendices		105	(19)
A: The Relationship between Peri Ideon and Peri Heureseos		105	(10)
B: Methodos and its Background		115	(3)
C: The Relation between Peri Ideon and Peri Aphelous Logou		118	(6)
Translation of Peri Aphelous Logou		124	(30)
Bibliography		154	(10)
Index of Passages Cited		164	(3)
General Index		167