Ancient Literary Criticism
The Principal Texts in New Translations
Published on 3. February 1971
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-19-814360-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist student. This edition provides for the first time the principal texts in translation, giving the reader a full view of ancient literary criticism and its development. In addition to well-known texts such as Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, and Longinus's On Sublimity, the book includes complete versions of Aristotle's Rhetoric Book III, Demetrius's On Style, and Tacitus's Dialogue on Orators. It's shorter passages range from Homer to Hermogenes of Tarsus, in addition to selections from Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cicero, the two Senecas, and Quintilian.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
868 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-814360-4 (9780198143604)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
BEGINNINGS; PLATO; ARISTOTLE; DEMETRIUS; CICERO; LATIN CRITICISM OF POETRY; GREEK AUGUSTANS; DECLAMATION AND THE SENECAS; QUINTILIAN AND PLINY; TACITUS, DIALOGUE ON ORATORS; 'LONGINUS', ON SUBLIMITY; DIO CHRYSOSTOM AND PLUTARCH: THE GREEK REVIVAL; TWO CRITICS OF HISTORY; SECOND- AND THIRD-CENTURY TEXTS; LATER GREEK RHETORIC; INDEXES