In a revised version of his 2008 PhD dissertation in philosophy at Rheinischen Friedrick-Wilhelms-U., Bonn, Wiater explores the ideological foundation of the well-known classical style of Greek
historian and rhetorician Dionysius (60-7 BC). He looks at his classicism as a social-cultural phenomenon that sheds much needed light on why a group of Greek and Roman intellectuals at that
time attempted to speak and write like authors who had lived three centuries before them. His perspectives are language and identity in Dionysius' classicism, getting the Romans into the
picture, the construction of a classicist past, being a classicist critic, and the interactive structure of Dionysius' writings. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
