Dionysius of Halicarnassus: On Thucydides: english translation, based on the Greek text of Usener-Radermacher with commentary

205 Pages·1975·2.96 MB·English

by  William Kendrick Pritchett

DIONYSIUS
OF HALICARNASSUS:
ON THUCYDIDES

DIONYSIUS
OF HALICARNASSUS:
ON THUCYDIDES
English translation,
based on the Greek text of Usener-Radermacher
With commentary
by W KENDRICK PRITCHETT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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University of California Press
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University of California Press, Ltd.
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Copyright© 1975, by
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ISBN 0-520-02922-4
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CONTENTS
Bibliography of Short Titles .ix
Introduction . . . . . xiii
Metaphorical Vocabulary of Dionysius xiv
Text of Dionysius' De Thucydide . . .xv
Dionysius as a Literary Historian . . . xviii
Dionysius as a Literary Critic in the De Thucydide . xxii
Outline of De Thucydide . . . .xxxv
Rhetorical System of Dionysius . . . . . . . xxxvi
Translation of Usener-Radermacher text of De Thucydide . . 1
Commentary on De Thucydide . . . . . . . . . 47
Appendix 1: Translation of Oxyrhynchus Papyri 6.853 147
Bibliography of De Thucydide 149
Indices:
Passages from Thucydides quoted in De Thucydide 155
References to Thucydides in De Thucydide . . 155
Passages from Thucydides quoted by Dionysius,
excluding those found in De Thucydide . . 156
References in Dionysius to passages in Thucydides,
excluding those found in the De Thucydide. 157
Index of Greek words . . . 158
Index of Authors Referred to . . . . . . 160

BIBLIOGRAPHYO F SHORT TITLES
Bibliography of the De Thucydide is given at the end of the volume, in a
separate appendix. References to the two-volume edition of the rhetorical
works of Dionysius (Dionysii Halicarnassei quae exstant, vols. 5 [Leipzig
1899) and 6 [19041, reprinted in 1965) by H. Usener and L. Radermacher
are given by chapters, pages and lines of the separate treatises. References
to periodicals follow the system of Marouzeau. Abbreviations of titles of
ancient works are those of Liddell and Scott.
Bonner, LTDH S.F. Bonner, The Literary Treatises of Dionysius
of Halicamassus (Cambridge 1939).
Emesti, Lexicon J.C.T. Emesti, Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum
Rhetoricae (Leipzig 1795, reprinted 1962).
Jacoby, FGH F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Histo
riker (Berlin 1923-1930, Leiden 1940-).
Geigenmtiller P. Geigenmtiller, Quaestiones Dionysianae de vo
Quaestiones cabulis artis criticae (Diss. Leipzig 1908).
Grube, GCDS G.M.A. Grube, A Greek Critic: Demetrius on
Style (Toronto 1961).
-,GRC The Greek and Roman Critics (London 1965).
HCI' A.W. Gomme, A. Andrewes, and K.J. Dover, A
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Luschnat, Thukydides Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopiidie, Supplement
Band 12 (1970), cols. 1085-1354.
Roberts, DHLC W.R. Roberts, Dionysius of Halicamassus on
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-,DHTLL Dionysius of Halicamassus, The Three Literary
Letters (Cambridge 1901).
-,DS Demetrius on Style (Cambridge 1902).
-,LS Longinus on the Sublime (Cambridge 1899).
RE Real-Encyclopiidie der classischen Altertums
wissenschaf t.
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x Dionysius of Halicamassus
Ros, Metabole J.G.A. Ros, Die Metabole (Variatio) als Stilprinzip
des Thukydides (Paderbom 1938, reprinted Am
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