Canons of Style in the Antonine Age
Idea-Theory and Its Literary Context
Ian Rutherford
Price: £49.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814729-9
Publication date: 19 November 1998
176 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between literature and stylistic theory in the Antonine Age. The literature is the prose literature of the Second Sophistic and the stylistic theory is the so-called idea-theory set out in the Peri Ideon
of Hermogenes of Tarsus, as well as two anonymous works: the Peri Politikou Logou and the Peri Aphelous Logou.
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author discusses the relationship between idea-theory and sophistic declamation, the relative value attributed to prose and poetry, attitudes towards Xenophon and Demosthenes, and the reputation of Aelius Aristides. He concludes that the links between literary theory and literary practice are greater than previously imagined.
A translation of the anonymous Peri Aphelous Logou
(`On Plain
Language') is included as an appendix. This has not previously been translated although it is the major source for the reception of Xenoephon in this period.
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Readership: Scholars of late Greek literature, ancient rhetoric, and ancient literary criticism.
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Ian Rutherford, Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading
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