Review: [untitled]

Author(s): R. B. Appleton
Source: The Classical Review, Vol. 28, No. 8 (Dec., 1914), p. 285
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 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 285
Cicero than by any other author. The was imitating,especially when he follows
works from which he drew most were Isocrates in claiming various Athenian
the De natura deorum, Tusculanae, statesmen as orators on grounds of
A cademica and De legibus. He quotes barest probability. Then the same is
from lost treatises-e.g. the Hortensius done for Dionysius and his t&X6raojoo
and Consolatio,also once from the Pro 'Ci and for Aristides. Parallels
Murena,which nearly shared their fate. areCnrrop
deduced with great care and learn-
Fessler analyses Books I.-II., giving an ing, but the theme is a little thin. And
account of their subject-matter and surely revision was needed here. So
showing how the treatment is modelled far as I have observed, no writers notice
4auponCicero. In the case of the re- oratorical ability in Solon or Clisthenes
maining books (III.-VII.), he contents (p. 36). Aristides also praises Solon, who
himself with a list of imitations, with was adduced by Isocrates as an example of
references, to which he adds a subject- the orator-statesman (p. 59). , These five
index. The work will be found useful. statesmen form the basis for Aristides'
ALBERT C. CLARK. claim that oratory and statesmanship are
Queen'sCollege,Oxford. inseparably united. These are the same
examples used by Isocrates (who adds to the
list Clisthenes)(p. 6o) ! Dormitat Homerus
with a vengeance. The book is beauti-
The Influence of Isocrates on Cicero, fully produced.
R. B. APPLETON.
Dionysius and Aristides. By H. M.
HUBBELL. 91 x 61. Pp. 84. (Yale
University Press) Oxford: Clarendon
Press. ($1.25.) 5s. 6d. net. Bibliotheca Philologica Classica etA rchaeo-
THIS is a degree thesis which traces the logica. (Catalogue de livres anciens et
influence of Isocrates not on the style modernes aux prix marqu6s, No. 50).
but on the thought of later writers. The Large 8vo. Pp. 548. Leyde (Hol-
first section, which contains nothing lande): Burgersdijk and Niermans.
new, sets forth the Isocratean idea of 2 fl. (3s. 4d.).
oratory. (The 18'at seem to be better
represented in English by 'common- Bibliographie Pratique de la Littirature
place arguments' rather than by Grecquedes origines d lafin de lape'riode
Romaine. Par PAUL MASQUERAY.
'thought elements,' p. 7). The peculiar
character of the rpo' NluxocXeais ex- PP. 334. Paris: Klincksieck. 5 f-
plained by its being a mere collection of THE first of these two useful reference
1Gateon government and morality such books, though but a trade catalogue, is
as Isocrates put before his students. a catalogue that occasionally supple-
After this preliminary section the De ments Engelmann on some old edition
Oratoreis examined to prove that Cicero and is wonderful value for the price. It
took his whole idea of the art of oratory is not so full as Klussmann,but quite
from Isocrates. To both the orator is full enough for ordinary working pur-
a statesman. The dichotomy between poses. Occasional notes are given as
' philosophy' and rhetoric is false. This to the merit or rarityof some particular
theme is adequatelydeveloped, but there edition. There is a section on Neo-
is nothing very striking in it. The Latin authors, and nearly two hundred
orator-statesman was traditional in pages on books on the classics arranged
Greece, and it is only Plato's use of the under headings such as grammar,
term LXowocla as confined to 06opripV") metric, history of literature, religion,
OtXooo'a that has made the case etc. It represents, of course, the
worth bringing forward at all. Cicero peculiarities of one bookseller's stock,
obviously admired Isocrates, but it is but it is a very extensive stock of some
defending a thesis to trace the whole of sixteen thousand volumes. Certainly
Cicero's conception of the function of no classical scholar who is attempting
the orator to Isocrates. Still some to collect a small library should be
of the parallels do prove that Cicero without it.