The intended public of Demetrius's on style: The place of the treatise in the hellenistic educational system

Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-48

  Schenkeveld, Dirk M ^a  

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DOI: 10.1525/rh.2000.18.1.29     Document Type: Article

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1. I discussed this subject first in a seminar given in November 1997 at the university of Turku, and then at the colloquium organised in October 1998 at the University of North Carolina in honour of George A. Kennedy.
2. oorter ed., Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period 330 B.C - A.D. 400 (Leiden: Brill, 1997) pp. 19-37.
3. Aelius Theon, Progymnasmata, Texte établi et traduit par Michel Patillon (Paris: CUF, 1997).
4. I use the translation of G. A. Kennedy, Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Composition (Fort Collins: Chez l'auteur, 1999).
5. Kennedy, "Historical Survey", p. 26.
6. Aristotle on Rhetoric, trans. G. A. Kennedy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) introduction, p. 25.
7. Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire, Introduction, Text and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric attributed to Anonymus Seguerianus and Apsines of Gadara, ed. Mervin R. Dilts and George A. Kennedy (Leiden: Brill, 1997)
8. Mnemosyne Suppl. 166, p. xi.
9. Thus for instance Rahn in Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Ausbildung des Redners Zwolf Bücher ed. and trans. Helmut Rahn, Texte zur Forschung 2-3 (Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft: 1972-5).
10. E.g. D. A. Russell, Longinus On the Sublime (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964) p. ix.
11. Teresa Morgan, Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) pp. 192-93 discusses some rhetorical books having an educational purpose.
12. Wilhelm Kroll, "Rhetorik", in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1940) Supplem. vii, coll. 1039-1138 (col. 1078): "Obwohl sie eigentlich wohl eine rhetorische sein will, d.h. Anweisungen für die Kunstprosa geben will, trägt sie doch auf weite Strecken den Charakter einer ästhetischen Schrift...Das stilkritische Interesse überwiegt durchaus, so sehr, dass ausser stilkritischen Analysen auch kleine Abhandlungen eingeschoben sind wie die über das δεινό ν bei Demades (282-86) und über den dichterischen Charakter der Erzählung des Ktesias (212-16)."
13. G. M. A. Grube, A Greek Critic: Demetrius on Style (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961) p. 22.
14. Doreen C. Innes ed. and trans., Demetrius On Style, together with Aristotle's Poetics and Longinus's On the Sublime (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)
15. Loeb Classical Library 199, pp. 311-12.
16. C. J. Classen, "Rhetoric and Literary Criticism. Their Nature and their Functions in Antiquity", Mnemosyne 48, (1995) pp. 513-35 (p. 527).
17. "Demetrius On Style", trans. Doreen C. Innes, in D. A. Russell and M. Winterbottom eds, Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972) p. 173.
18. Demetrius On Style, with an English translation by W. Rhys Roberts (London: Heinemann, 1927)
19. Loeb Classical Library, p. 271.
20. Dirk M. Schenkeveld, Studies in Demetrius On Style (Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1964) p. 52.
21. Classical Review 16 (1966) pp. 315-17.
22. See the discussion in Innes, Demetrius On Style, cit. in n. 12 above, pp. 312-21.
23. See Innes, pp. 328-30.
24. Incidentally, when saying "Demetrius wrote his work" I do not wish to exclude the possibility that someone else, e.g. a pupil, wrote down the text as spoken by Demetrius. In this connection I think of Kennedy's characterisation: "Demetrius' treatise looks like a series of notes on certain aspects of composition" (G. A. Kennedy, "Demetrius, On Style", in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol i: Classical Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) pp. 196-98 (p. 196).
25. Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises, cit. in n. 6 above, pp. 77 and xi.
26. Dutch "jij-jullie", German "du-ihr", French "tu-vous". I can neglect here the polite forms ("U, Sie, vous" respectively) of these languages.
27. Ludwig Radermacher, Demetrii Phalerei qui dicitur de Elocutione libellus (Leipzig: Teubner, 1901) p.120.
28. Quotations from the translations in Menander Rhetor, ed. with trans. and comm. by D. A. Russell and N. G. Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981).
29. D. A. Russell, Greek Declamation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) p. 63.
30. Démétrius Du Style, Texte établi et traduit par Pierre Chiron (Paris: CUF, 1993) pp. 133-34.
31. Russell, Greek Declamation, p. 20.
32. For which see, for example, the discussion in Innes, cit. in n. 12, p. 323.
33. Translation in Kennedy, Progymnasmata, cit. in n. 3 above.
34. Stanley K. Stowers, Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Library of Early Christianity 5 (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1986) p. 32, n. 3 says, because of the testimonies of Theon and Nicolaus: "Letter writing was learned in the second stage of education", thereby meaning the stage of the progymnasmata. This view is no obstacle to my interpretation, because in the final stage of Greek declamation the aspect of the style of letters remains to be discussed.
35. Schenkeveld, Studies in Demetrius On Style, cit. in n. 16 above, pp. 15-17.
36. Russell, Greek Declamation, cit. in n. 26 above, p. 10.
37. He refers to Menander Rhetor, 331,15-7, Rhetores Graeci, iii Sp.
38. Laurent Pemot, La Rhétorique de l'éloge dans le monde gréco-romain (Paris: Inst. d'Etudes Augustiniennes, 1993) Coll. Et. Augustin. 137-8, pp. 60-61. His note 26 gives further references from Greek and Roman authors.
39. Classen, "Rhetoric and Literary Criticism", cit. in n. 13 above, p. 527.
40. Manfred Fuhrmann, Das systematische Lehrbuch: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Wissenschaften in der Antike (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 1960).