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Atticism literally means favouring the (A resident of Athens) Athenians.
It was also a (additional info and facts about rhetorical) rhetorical movement which began in the first quarter of the first century BC.
Writers such as (additional info and facts about Lucian) Lucian also adopted Atticism meaning that the style survived until the (The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries) Renaissance.
It was also a rhetorical movement which began in the mid first century BC.
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On the other hand Wisse's discussion of Atticism is one of the best introductions to the subject I have seen.
It is particularly valuable because this is an area much distorted by the authority and prejudice of Wilamowitz, and the failure of some recent writers on the subject to dig themselves out of the "jungle," as Wisse calls it.
Roman Atticism began between 60 and 55, and the movement--which was a somewhat unfocussed reaction against traditional Hellenistic rhetoric, labelled as "Asianism" by detractors--increased even after the death of Calvus in 54/3 and included Brutus.
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MAGAZINES History: Review of New Books 6/22/1997 Berthold, Richard M. Greek language, and the uses to which it was put by the Greek intellectual elite.
He considers particularly the emergence of atticism and moves on to the more general question of how the classical past was employed in understanding the present and in defining...
It was also a rhetorical movement which began in the first quarter of the first century BC.
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Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies: Atticism, Homer, Neoplatonism, and Furstenspiegel: Julian's second panegyric on ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A long digression (3.23-32) describes Julian's true king (as if he were now concerned with proving his point); a clumsy application of this royal model to Constantius (3.32-39) concludes the panegyric.
To clarify the political meaning hidden behind this structure, I shall first address the question of Julian's specific use of Atticism and Homeric citations as stylistic strategies for contrasting the portrait of the true king and the rest of the encomium.
The study of rhetorical figures thus suggests that Atticism for Julian was not merely a 'fashionable' style, but a strategy employed according to criteria other than stylistic ones.
Atticism dominated the production of literature for the entire Byzantine era from the establishment of Constantinople in 330 until 1453 when the city was defeated by the Turks.
Efforts to impose it were heavily influenced by the old Atticism, though, and the attempt to produce a prose medium broad enough to cover both formal and colloquial situations has proved extraordinarily difficult.
Even today the language question still presents problems, yet the continuing growth of educational institutions as well as journalism and the broadcast media have begun to affect a solution.
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A long section then treats the opposition between Atticism and Asianism, and the vexed questions of the rise of Atticism and the relationship between the Roman variant combated by Cicero on the one hand and the Greek variant encountered in Dionysius on the other.
Finally, the notion that it was "perhaps" ("vielleicht") Greek rhetoricians in Rome who were responsible for the movement is introduced in a parenthesis, embedded in the most complicated sentence of H.'s whole text, which is otherwise written in very clear German (35).
As compared to Dihle, H. adds (in the wake of Gelzer [see note 1], 15-6), that the earlier existence of a broader Atticism from which the Dionysian variant could be derived is indeed reflected by a passage from Cicero's Brutus, viz.
Nevertheless, some "Atticisms" were still retained by Koine Greek; and these "Atticisms" are helpful in determining the extent to which certain Greek manuscripts were altered by the scribes that copied them.
So again, there is no question that certain "Atticisms" were not in the "original autographs", but were added to the Koine Greek manuscripts at a later date.
And since these "Atticisms" are more prevalent in the Alexandrian manuscripts of the Critical Text (upon which most modern Bibles are based), this evidence points to the probability that the Byzantine Text manuscripts (the Majority Text, upon which the King James Bible is based) could actually be closer to the "original autographs".
Both tendencies persisted in Byzantium, but the first, as the one officially recognized, retained predominance and was not driven from the field until the fall of the empire.
The first tendency, strong as it was, received additional support from the reactionary linguistic movement known as Atticism.
While Alexandria, as an important central and conservative factor, was thus influential in confining, and during the Byzantine period, directing, the literary and linguistic life of the later Greek world, a second conservative factor is found in the influence of the Roman culture-circle on the political and judicial life of the Eastern Empire.
Poussin's gradual evolution of a more restrained approach to figure and composition, seen in his drawing Satyr and Nymphs, was viewed by many artists born in the first two decades of the seventeenth century as a viable alternative to the rarefied and somewhat planar elegance of Vouet and his circle.
The classicizing tendencies of Parisian Atticism grew to new proportions in the full-blown and energetic Baroque classicism evident in the works of Charles Le Brun, who informed the model and theories of Poussin with the decorative genius of Rubens in drawings such as Return from Flanders.
Together with artists such as Le Sueur, François Perrier, and Bourdon, he founded the Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1648, hereafter referred to simply, as the Académie.
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They sorta remind me of Greek goddesses and gods..." "I was trying for atticism - a bit of the classical, and you said you wanted something with a sexy appeal..." "You did it beautifully.
Are you certain you want to go through with this?" *aerious also aereous (AY-ree-uhs) adjective; Of the nature of air, airy.
[From Latin aereus or aerius, adjectival form of aer, air, + -ous.] *atticism (AT-i-siz-em) noun; 1.
