On Thucydides: An Essay by Dionysius of Halicarnassus

by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, MaryMarc Translations (Translator), marciano guerrero (Editor)

Overview

Being a master of rhetoric, grammar, and history, Dionysius of Halicarnassus wrote not only tracts in each of these fields, but acute literary criticism. His essays have been collected in a book collectively called Critical Essays; a book in which one can find not only semblances of ancient orators, but careful analysis of their writings and speeches—Demosthenes and Thucydides are his most felicitous critical essays.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016287027
Publisher:	Marciano Guerrero
Publication date:	02/21/2013
Series:	Dionysius of Halicarnassus Essays , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	71 KB

About the Author

Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. His literary style followed the classical Attic Greek in its prime.
His writings showed a definite intention to reconcile the Greeks to the rule of Rome, adducing that the Romans were genuine descendants of the older Greeks. According to him, history is philosophy teaching by examples, and this idea he has carried out from the point of view of the Greek rhetorician