Stoïcisme et jugement littéraire au Ier siècle avant J.-C. : le témoignage de Denys d’Halicarnasse

• Main Author: Mélina Lévy-Makinson
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ENS Éditions 2011-07-01
• Series: Aitia : Regards sur la Culture Hellénistique au XXIe Siècle
• Subjects: arrangement of words; atticism; convenience; Dionysius of Halicarnassus; hellenism; literary criticism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/140

Integrated into the circle of the Aelii Tuberones, a Roman family of Stoic inclinations, the historian and rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus was very familiar with theories of Stoicism : in fact, the Stoic theories about language were of high interest for Dionysus’ stylistic research, as his Rhetorical Works demonstrate. Moreover, his thinking reflects important issues of literary debate of first century BC in Rome. As an earnest atticist writer, Dionysius wrote two treatises (On Thucydides and the Second Letter to Ammeus) in reaction to the Stoic admirers of the author of the Peloponnesian War. Our author develops for his part a “directed to Stoicism atticism” that leans on a conception of reconciling Greeks and Romans in the Empire.