Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory and Its Literary Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198147299)

This is a study of the relationship between Greek prose literature of the Antonine Age in the second century AD (the Second Sophistic) and idea-theory, a type of literary stylistics best known from the Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus. The author considers sophistic declamation, the relative value attributed to prose and poetry, attitudes towards Xenophon and Demosthenes, and the reputation of Aelius Aristides.

Author: Ian Rutherford
ISBN-10: 0198147295
ISBN-13: 9780198147299
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 01/28/1999
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d