The Date of Demetrius "On Style"
1964; Classical Association of Canada; Volume: 18; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1086363
ISSN1929-4883
Autores Tópico(s)Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods
ResumoGoold has a double aim: he seeks to reinforce view that Demetrius was a contemporary of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in first century B.C. in Rome, and then to identify him with Peripatetic philosopher whose contention (that Demosthenes learned his rhetorical art from Aristotle) Dionysius disproves in first letter to Ammaeus, and also with Demetrius to whom Dionysius had sent an essay on Imitation, as he tells us in letter to Pompey (chapter 3 ad init.). Pompeius himself is then further identified with author of On Sublime, but that does not concern us at present. Goold writes well, but I fear that attractive rhetorical phrases not infrequently take place of argument. Like Horace, he says what others have said before but says it better. These parts of article I must ignore, for I cannot here repeat all I have already said in many pages. To give one example: I showed that there are in treatise an unusually large number of references to and quotations from persons who are known to have lived in late fourth and early third centuries, and I listed and discussed these. Goold replies (p. 181) that they have not seemed so to any other scholar, which proves nothing. Indeed it was my reason for pointing this out. That kind of argument I must ignore, and try to restrict myself to points that are new, or where something is added. Nor am I a lone objector to the orthodox opinion which puts it three hundred years later. This was orthodox view sixty years ago, but a number of scholars have more recently argued for earlier dates, varying from late third century to 100 B.C.2 I agree that passage in Philodemus' Rhetoric' which states that
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