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- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: First Thoughts on Language and Nature
- Chapter 1 Posidonius’ Linguistic Naturalism and Its Philosophical Pedigree
- Chapter 2 Lucilius on Latin Spelling, Grammar, and Usage
- Chapter 3 Nigidius Figulus’ Naturalism
- Chapter 4 Naturalism in Morphology
- Chapter 5 What’s Hecuba to Him?
- Chapter 6 Linguistic Naturalism in Cicero’s Academica
- Chapter 7 Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style
- Chapter 8 Natural Law and Natural Language in the First Century BCE
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum
Chapter 7 - Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style
From Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2019
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: First Thoughts on Language and Nature
- Chapter 1 Posidonius’ Linguistic Naturalism and Its Philosophical Pedigree
- Chapter 2 Lucilius on Latin Spelling, Grammar, and Usage
- Chapter 3 Nigidius Figulus’ Naturalism
- Chapter 4 Naturalism in Morphology
- Chapter 5 What’s Hecuba to Him?
- Chapter 6 Linguistic Naturalism in Cicero’s Academica
- Chapter 7 Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style
- Chapter 8 Natural Law and Natural Language in the First Century BCE
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum
Summary
The Greek rhetorician and historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus was active in Rome at the end of the first century BC.2 His extant works include a history of early Rome, critical letters, and rhetorical treatises with a focus on style: On Composition, On Imitation, On Thucydides, and On the Ancient Orators, including separate essays on Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, and Demosthenes. Engaged as he was in the oratory, history, and poetry of the classical Greek past, Dionysius himself lived in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Born before 55 BC, he was a contemporary of Virgil and Horace. When Dionysius arrived in Rome in 30 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) had been dead for more than a decade, but Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was still alive.
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- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World , pp. 171 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019