How Style Met the City

Abstract The modern concept of style is a complex one and difficult to map fully onto corresponding notion in ancient Greek thinking vocabulary. This paper sets out examine both the common understandings this term contemporary scholarship sensitivities what we may call stylistic phenomena – multi-levelled features that be conceptualized as characterizing ‘how’ opposed ‘what’. moves on show ways stylistics are related city , say, use language culturally-defined communicative contexts for which texts were produced circulated classical Athens. In final section, briefly reviews recent approaches perspectives oratory lays framework special issue.