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History of Classical Scholarship

History of Classical Scholarship. 5th c. BC - 2nd c. AD. The Sophistic Movement. Gorgias of Leontini: His sensational visit in Athens (427) helps establish rhetoric Much attention to the sound of speech and the elegance of the presentation Ultimate goal: persuasion not arete

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History of Classical Scholarship

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  1. History of Classical Scholarship 5th c. BC - 2nd c. AD

  2. The Sophistic Movement • Gorgias of Leontini: • His sensational visit in Athens (427) helps establish rhetoric • Much attention to the sound of speech and the elegance of the presentation • Ultimate goal: persuasion not arete • He introduces epideictic oratory, argumentation and paradoxologia, with emphasis on unpopular arguments • Techne, Helenes Encomion

  3. Other Sophists • Prodikos introduces semantics (correct use of words) and linguistics • Hippias: expert ex-tempore orator • Thrasymachos introduces rhythm punctuation and emotional appeal (eleos) • Kratyllos renounced the power of words • Antiphon: the first professional criminal lawyer (Tetralogies)

  4. Aristotle • The most influential of Greek philosophers • Rhetoric • Logic • Poetics: the first extensive work of Classical Scholarship: • mimesis, pity and fear, • catharsis

  5. Late Classical/Hellenistic Scholarship • Theophrastos (371-287 BC): Parts of speech, Characters, doctrine of syllogism • Aristophanes of Byzantium (257-185 BC) Homeric Scholia, invented accents and puncuation • Aristarchos ( 220?–143 BC) The most prominent Homeric Scholar. Homeric Edition. He wrote many treatises and influenced later scholia. • Dionysios Thrax (170-90 BC) Techne Grammatike (morphological description of Greek) • Varro (1st c. BC) De Lingua Latina

  6. Early Lexicographic Collections and Commentaries • Aristophanes Byzantios • Suetonius (1st c. AD) • Pollux Onom (2nd c. AD) asticon (2nd c. AD) • Harpocration (2nd c. AD) • Didymos Chalcenteros Lexeis from Tragedy and comedy, collections of proverbs. • Commentaries on Homer, Bacchylides, Pindar, Sophocles, Demosthenes and other orators, Comic poets. His commentaries have influenced seriously Byzantine Scholia and Lexica

  7. Studies on Rhetoric and Style • Sophists, Isocrates, Aristotle • Caecilius of Cale Acte (Calactinus) • Cicero • Quintilian (1st c. AD) Institutio Oratoria • Hermogenes (2nd c AD): on style and rhetoric (Peri Staseon). The first ‘Modern’ literary critic. • Aelius Aristeides (2nd c.) • Philostratos Lives of Sophists

  8. Dionysios Halicarnasseus • The first true classical scholar? • Invented accents and wanted to retain prosody • Books on rhetoric • Literary criticism on Lysias, Deinarchos, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Thucydides • Work on Homer • Historiography (Roman Antiquities)

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