La définition de l'histoire comme « mélange » dans le prologue des Antiquités Romaines de Denys d'Halicarnasse (I, 8, 3) .

Abstract

In the prologue of his Roman Antiquities (I, 8, 3), Dionysius of Halicarnassus gives a definition of his history as « έξ άπάσης ιδέας μικτον εναγώνιου τε και θεωρητικής ». This passage was considered by all the editors as obscure or corrupted and has been corrected. It is nevertheless possible to keep the text given by the Greek manuscripts, if we interpret it in the light of the aesthetic and stylistic theories developed in the Critical Essays.