| Preface | 8 |
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| Table of Contents | 10 |
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| 1. Introduction: The Aims and Methods of This Study | 14 |
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| 1.1 ‘Webs of Significance’ – A Novel Approach to Dionysius’ Classicism | 14 |
| 1.1.1 Dionysius’ Classicism as a Cultural Phenomenon | 14 |
| 1.1.2 Dionysius – an ‘Augustan’Author? | 21 |
| 1.1.3 A Cultural Identity Approach to Dionysius’ Classicism | 31 |
| 1.2 The Conceptual Framework of Dionysius’ Classicism | 42 |
| 1.2.1 Criticismas a Struggle forAuthority | 45 |
| 1.2.2 Dionysius’ Critical Method as Heir to the Tradition of Classical Rhetoric | 53 |
| 1.2.3 The Power of the Text: Creating a Discursive Tradition | 57 |
| 1.2.4 Criticism as Constituent of Communities of Intellectuals | 60 |
| 1.3 Conclusions | 65 |
| 2. Reviving the Past: Language and Identity in Dionysius’ Classicism | 73 |
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| 2.1 Introduction: Language and Time in Dionysius’ Classicism | 73 |
| FilÏsofoc Rhtorik, Miµhsic, and Continuity | 78 |
| 2.2.1 Politiko LÏgoi: Learning Classical Identity from Isocrates | 78 |
| 2.2.2 Classicist Self-Fashioning: Re-enacting the Past through Miµmhsic | 90 |
| 2.3 Language and Power: Getting the Romans into the Picture | 105 |
| 2.3.1 Greeks, Romans, Barbarians: Dionysius’ Interpretation ofAugustanRome | 105 |
| 2.3.2 Dionysius’ Interpretation of the Roman Present inContext | 113 |
| 2.3.3 Greek or Roman? The Ambiguity of Dionysius’ View of Augustan Rome | 120 |
| 2.3.4 Coda: How Historical is Dionysius’ Model of History? | 123 |
| 2.4 Summary | 129 |
| 3. History and Criticism: The Construction of a Classicist Past | 133 |
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| 3.1 ‘Metahistory’ avant la lettre: Dionysius on Historical Writing | 134 |
| 3.2 Deconstructing Thucydides | 143 |
| 3.2.1 Identifying with the Past: Why Herodotus Succeeded where Thucydides Failed | 145 |
| 3.2.2 Classicist History: Theopompus’ ‘Isocratean’ Approach to the Past | 162 |
| 3.2.3 Between History and Criticism: Re-writing the MelianDialogue | 167 |
| 3.3 A Greek Past for the Roman Present: The Project of Dionysius’ Antiquitates | 178 |
| 3.3.1 The Archaeology of Roman Power | 184 |
| 3.3.2 Identity and Difference: Be Roman, Go Greek? | 211 |
| 3.4 Summary | 236 |
| 4. Knowledge and Elitism: Being a Classicist Critic | 239 |
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| 4.1 Reading and Distinction in Dionysius’ Classicism | 243 |
| 4.2 ‘Authentic Reading’: Becoming a Classicist Critic | 248 |
| 4.2.1 The Failures of Scholarship Past: Redressing the Balance between Theory and Practice | 248 |
| 4.2.2 Misreading Tradition: Deconstructing Chrysippus | 252 |
| 4.2.3 Refuting the Idea of a ‘Natural Word Order’ | 256 |
| 4.2.4 On Literary Composition : A Normative Aesthetics of Classical Style | 259 |
| 4.2.5 Dionysius’ Writings: A Classical Course of Education | 270 |
| 4.3 The Mysteries of Education: Being an Elite Critic | 276 |
| 4.3.1 Knowledge and Elitism | 277 |
| 4.3.2 The Mysteries of Knowledge | 280 |
| 4.3.3 Classical Politicians and Classicist Readers: Knowledge and Leadership | 283 |
| 4.4 Summary | 290 |
| 5. Enacting Distinction: The Interactive Structure of Dionysius’ Writings | 292 |
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| 5.1 Criticism as Dialogic Interaction: Creating an ‘Imagined Community’ of Classicists | 294 |
| 5.2 Strategies ofDistinction:Out-Group Reading | 310 |
| 5.2.1 ‘Objective Critic’ vs ‘Subjective Critic’: The Peripatetic on Trial | 316 |
| 5.2.2 The Aesthetics of Criticism: Dionysius vs the Platonists | 323 |
| 5.3 Summary | 361 |
| 6. Conclusions | 365 |
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| References | 374 |
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| Indices | 400 |
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| 1. Key Notions, Persons, Places | 400 |
| 2. Greek Terms | 404 |
| 3. PassagesDiscussed | 405 |
