Dionysius taught rhetoric in Augustan Rome and asks a question no one had asked so carefully: not what to say, but how the words should be placed. He analyses passages of Homer, Herodotus, Demosthenes and Sappho syllable by syllable, showing that rearrangement destroys them — with Roberts’s translation and commentary.
The great classical treatise on word-order, rhythm and sound. Download the free EPUB.