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The Ideology of Classicism : Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus

The book develops an entirely original theoretical approach to the writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, making possible for the first time an in-depth appreciation of Dionysius’ classicism as a complex cultural phenomenon rather than a purely linguistic/stylistic matter. This is also the first study ever to cover Dionysius’ œuvre in its entirety, embracing the critical essays and the Antiquitates, thus resulting in a new understanding of how Dionysius’ historical work relates to his ‘classicist ideology’. To sustain the book’s wide-ranging argument, an unusually extensive body of primary material was analysed (more than 2000 pages of Teubner text).