Demetrius Third Century B. | G. M. A. Grube (essay date 1964)
G. M. A. Grube (essay date 1964)
SOURCE: "The Date of Demetrius on Style," The Phoenix, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Winter, 1964, pp. 294-302.
[In the following essay, Grube reasserts his position regarding the date of On Style, responding to opposing arguments made by Goold and Rist (see two previous excerpts).]
Since the publication of my A Greek Critic, Demetrius on Style,1 two of my Toronto colleagues have published articles challenging my dating of the treatise in 270 B.C. or not much later; both G. P. Goold's "A Greek Professorial Circle at Rome," TAP A 92 (1961) 168-192 and J. M. Rist's "Demetrius the Stylist and Artemon the Compiler" in Phoenix 18 (1964) 2-8, argue for a much later date.
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Goold has a double aim: he seeks to reinforce the view that Demetrius was a contemporary of Dionysius of Halicamassus in the first century B.C. in Rome, and then to identify him with the Peripatetic...
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