1. History of Classical Scholarship 5th c. BC - 2nd c. AD

2. The Sophistic Movement Gorgias of Leontini: His sensational visit in Athens (427) helps establish rhetoric Much attention to the sound of speech and the elegance of the presentation Ultimate goal: persuasion not arete He introduces epideictic oratory, argumentation and paradoxologia, with emphasis on unpopular arguments Techne, Helenes Encomion

3. Other Sophists Prodikos introduces semantics (correct use of words) and linguistics Hippias: expert ex-tempore orator Thrasymachos introduces rhythm punctuation and emotional appeal (eleos) Kratyllos renounced the power of words Antiphon: the first professional criminal lawyer (Tetralogies)

4. Aristotle The most influential of Greek philosophers Rhetoric Logic Poetics: the first extensive work of Classical Scholarship: mimesis, pity and fear, catharsis

5. Late Classical/Hellenistic Scholarship Theophrastos (371-287 BC): Parts of speech, Characters, doctrine of syllogism Aristophanes of Byzantium (257-185 BC) Homeric Scholia, invented accents and puncuation Aristarchos ( 220?–143 BC) The most prominent Homeric Scholar. Homeric Edition. He wrote many treatises and influenced later scholia. Dionysios Thrax (170-90 BC) Techne Grammatike (morphological description of Greek) Varro (1st c. BC) De Lingua Latina

6. Early Lexicographic Collections and Commentaries Aristophanes Byzantios Suetonius (1st c. AD) Pollux Onom (2nd c. AD) asticon (2nd c. AD) Harpocration (2nd c. AD) Didymos Chalcenteros Lexeis from Tragedy and comedy, collections of proverbs. Commentaries on Homer, Bacchylides, Pindar, Sophocles, Demosthenes and other orators, Comic poets. His commentaries have influenced seriously Byzantine Scholia and Lexica

7. Studies on Rhetoric and Style Sophists, Isocrates, Aristotle Caecilius of Cale Acte (Calactinus) Cicero Quintilian (1st c. AD) Institutio Oratoria Hermogenes (2nd c AD): on style and rhetoric (Peri Staseon). The first ‘Modern’ literary critic. Aelius Aristeides (2nd c.) Philostratos Lives of Sophists

8. Dionysios Halicarnasseus The first true classical scholar? Invented accents and wanted to retain prosody Books on rhetoric Literary criticism on Lysias, Deinarchos, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Thucydides Work on Homer Historiography (Roman Antiquities)