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Zusatztext valuable collection Informationen zum Autor Andrew Laird is Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University. Klappentext The literary criticism of classical Greece and Rome has had an extensive influence on modern thought. The important ancient critics discussed in this book include Plato, Aristotle and Horace. This volume has a helpful introduction, chronology and suggestions for further reading. It will appeal to any readers with interests in literature, criticism or aesthetics. All Latin and Greek quotations are translated. Zusammenfassung The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. Whilst there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism. The volume contains a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a new translation of Bernays' 1857 essay on katharsis, and an important introductory chapter addressing the tension in ancient literary criticism between its place in the classical tradition and its role in contemporary endeavours to reconstruct ancient culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Andrew Laird: The value of ancient literary criticism 2: Penelope Murray: Poetic inspiration in early Greece 3: N. J. Richardson: Homeric professors in the age of the sophists 4: Elizabeth Belfiore: A theory of imitation in Plato's `Republic' 5: Stephen Halliwell: Plato and Aristotle on the denial of tragedy 6: A. M. Dale: Ethos and dianoia: `character' and `thought' in Aristotle's Poetics 7: Jacob Bernays: Aristotle on the effect of tragedy 8: N. J. Richardson: Literary criticism in the exegetical scholia to the Iliad: a sketch 9: A. A. Long: Stoic readings of Homer 10: Elizabeth Asmis: Epicurean poetics 11: D. A. Russell: Rhetoric and criticism 12: D. M. Schenkeveld: Theories of evaluation in the rhetorical works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus 13: Doreen C. Innes: Longinus: structure and unity 14: D. M. Schenkveld: The structure of Plutarch's `De audiendis poetis' 15: D. A. Russell: Ars poetica 16: Bruce Gibson: Ovid on reading: reading Ovid. reception in Ovid `Tristia' II 17: T. J. Luce: Reading and response in the `Dialogues' 18: Don Fowler: The Virgil commentary of Servius 19: Thomas G. Rosenmeyer: Ancient literary genres - a mirage? 20: Denis Feeney: Criticism ancient and modern ...
