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The Ideology of Classicism: Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. The Ideology of Classicism proposes a novel approach to Dionysius’œuvre as a whole by providing the first systematic studyof Greek classicism from theperspective of cultural identity. Drawing on cultural anthropology and Social Identity Theory, Wiater explores the world-view bound up with classicist criticism. Only from within this ideological framework can…