Dionysius of Halicarnassus's On literary composition: a translation and a study.

• Grant number: 22/13650-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2023
• End date: December 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Languages
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Rodrigues Junior
• Grantee: Gaya de Castro Cunha
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

After having finished a translation from Greek into Portuguese of chapters 1 to 9 of Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Peri Synteseos Onomaton (On literary composition) in my first undergraduate research project (FAPESP, no. 2021/03081-8), I propose to provide the translation of the remaining chapters of the treatise, which holds undeniable significance within the rhetorical tradition. In privileging elocution over the discovery of arguments, Dionysius joins Demetrius and Longinus in the canon of a branch of rhetoric that some scholars refer to as "ancient literary criticism." In addition to concluding the translation of Peri Synteseos Onomaton, which remains understudied and unpublished in Lusophone countries, this study will offer an analysis of the concept of euphony in the rhetorician's treatise, which presents, according to Stanford, the most elaborate discussion of the subject in Classical Greece.