Demetrius Critical Essay | Critical Essay by G. M. A. Grube

Critical Essay by G. M. A. Grube

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 philosopher whose...
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