Pseudo-Longinus - On the Sublime

Stephen Halliwell provides the first translation into English of On the Sublime in over fifty years. This volume contains a substantial introduction, which places the treatise in the wider context of Graeco-Roman culture.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Text and Translation


• Commentary

About the author

Stephen Halliwell has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Birmingham, and St Andrews, and has held visiting professorships in America, Belgium, Canada and Italy. He has published twelve books on ancient Greek literature and philosophy, and is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Summary

Stephen Halliwell provides the first translation into English of On the Sublime in over fifty years. This volume contains a substantial introduction, which places the treatise in the wider context of Graeco-Roman culture.

Additional text

A masterly critical edition ... and a learned, comprehensive commentary ... essential reading for anyone working on the history of rhetoric, literary criticism, aesthetics, and the history of the sublime.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Halliwell, Halliwell Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192894205
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289420-5
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Theory of art, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, ART / Criticism & Theory, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts