... of them treating of barbarian cult—but all three purporting to explain the practices of the “other.” These include Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Antiquitates Romanae, Arnobius of Sicca's Adversus Nationes, and Julius Caesar's De bello Gallico. Dionysius...

...Already in antiquity, Dionysius of Halicarnassus highlighted the idiosyncrasy of Thucydides’ style. In fact, Dionysius rewrites several Thucydidean passages, and his streamlined versions show that Thucydides frequently uses abstract nouns in places where a more commonplace idiom might prefer...

...Taking its cue from the fragments of On Imitation, by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 9 argues for two distinctly gendered models of fiction in Greek antiquity. According to the first, texts and women are alluring objects to be gazed at; according to the second, women’s...

... for so long. Etruria Etruscans Herodotus Lydians Dionysius of Halicarnassus Pelasgians Troy Trojan War Creston Etruscan sites Lemnos Pallottino Massimo Indo European language Dionysius of Halicarnassus Etruscans Herodotus Lemnos Trojan War Troy There are two separate debates about...

.... The Romans’ major intervention was through confiscation of territory from the Etruscans. Etruria Etruscans Augustus Etruscan sites Spurinna family Tarquinia Gauls Tiber Troy Trojan War Faliscans colonization Roman Samnites Dionysius of Halicarnassus Carthage Hannibalic War Perugia roads Roman...

... of professed opponents whom Dionysius of Halicarnassus ventriloquizes. Whitmarsh tentatively identifies Metrodorus of Scepsis as a likely target of Dionysius’ critiques and then reverse engineers Metrodorus’ arguments, drawing also on criticisms that Plutarch appears to have directed at Metrodorus. Whitmarsh...

...This chapter looks at the ‘forceful’ style of rhetoric which is traced back to Isaeus, the teacher of Demosthenes. It examines the evidence for Isaeus' stylistic ‘forcefulness’ provided by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his treatise on this Attic orator, and relates it to the developments...

...This chapter compares the accounts of the triple combat of the Horatii in the histories of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in order to cast light on the style and historiographical techniques of these two authors and also their debt to earlier historians. Matters discussed include both authors...

... of virtuous behavior. Dionysius’s critical language and sense of Herodotean synoptics are shown to have overlaps with ideas of imperial power. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Rome global literature Kadir Djelal classicality and classicizing Polybius Nicolaus of Damascus Strabo Greekness identity Plutarch...

...According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romulus divided up the territory of Rome equally among the citizens. He makes that point at the start of a lengthy digression on Romulus' constitutional arrangements, inserted into the narrative between the foundation and the rape of the Sabines...

... between stanzas. A case is made for moving beyond a mode of reading that sees rhythmical features exclusively as subordinated to semantic meaning. Dionysius of Halicarnassus intervals rhythm Sisyphus affectivity rhythmical enactment metre Philodemus Aristides Quintilianus chorus singing...

... rhythm Dionysius of Halicarnassus singing Westphal R Aristotle Aristoxenus appearances Euripides Aeschylus Pindar Crates of Malos lyre Webern A appearances Cicero Crates Dionysius of Halicarnassus intervals rhythm Longinus Philodemus sublimity voice Is it her singing that enchants...

...The death of the first king, Romulus the founder, constituted a problem on many levels for the Romans. Dionysius of Halicarnassus spoke of ‘many different stories’, various accounts on which there were evidently no agreement. According to one of these – a version Dionysius considered ‘rather...

... energeia Gladstone W E Longinus Martin Richard P Ong Walter J On Style Demetrius On the Sublime Longinus style Vivante Paolo animals nonhuman Cicero De oratore Cicero Dionysius of Halicarnassus Eden Kathy magnitude mimēsis Quintilian vivification Braidotti Rosi neoliteralism signs...

... by Cicero, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Hermogenes. It also explores the shape of Demosthenes’ speeches and sentences, along with his argumentation (logical, emotional, and ethical). Cicero Demosthenes the orator passim rhetoric Demosthenes Aristotle Dionysius of Halicarnassus Isocrates Lysias...

...Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature. N. Bryant Kirkland, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197583517.003.0002 This chapter studies Herodotus’s reception in the literary essays of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Dionysius defends...

.... The passage can be compared, on either side, with the more down-to-earth depiction in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and with the extravagant adventures in imagery of a passage in Plutarch’s De Fortuna Romanorum. The philosophical implications of the passage in the Life are made...

...This chapter is a study of Greek analyses of Roman civil wars through a Thucydidean lens. For Dionysius of Halicarnassus, as for Plutarch and Appian, as Pelling shows, the Thucydidean template works only indifferently in characterizing Roman civil wars. Greek authors trying to explain the Roman...

... focuses on two ancient authors, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Flavius Josephus, who had a great deal to say on local and universal history in different essays, and whose historical works, it has been argued, are the only extant local histories surviving from antiquity. References Abbreviations...