Longinus

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The complete translation, from the Greek of A. O. Prickard's Oxford text, features an introduction by Grube, establishing the historical and critical context of the work, and a biographical index.

On Great Writing (On the Sublime)

Benjamin Jowett

Saint Longinus' writing On The Sublime has been considered a classic since it was first written and remains a piece worth reading.

On the Sublime

Dionysius Longinus de sublimitate

The Greek Text Edited After the Paris Manuscript, with Introduction, Translation, Facsimiles and Appendices

Longinus On the Sublime

A Treatise of Dionysius Longinus Upon the Sublime. Translated from the Greek, with Explanatory Notes, by ... Charles Carthy

Longin vom Erhabenen mit Anmerkungen und einem Anhang

Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime: Translated ... with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of ... the Author. By William Smith ... The Third Edition, Corrected and Improved

William Rhys Roberts

Longinus on the Sublime

'Longinus' on the Sublime

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... depth of earnestness and unpremeditated utterance, but moreover hurrying his hearers on with him into the intricacies of his long inversions. For not unfrequently, after suspending nerves not to be broken with labour; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit. 1 hink of a man, like the universal patiiarch in Milton (who had drawn up befoie him in his prophetic vision the whole seiies of the generations which were to issue fiom his loins), a man capable of placing in review, after having brought together from the East, the West, the Noith and the South, from the coarseness of the rudest barbarism to the most refined and subtle civilization, all the schemes of government which had ever prevailed amongst mankind, weighing, measuring, collating, and comparing them all, joining fact with theory, and calling into council, upon all this infinite assemblage of things, all the speculations which have fatigued the understandings of profoundreasoners in all times --Let us then consider, that all these were but so many preparatory steps to qualify a man, and such a man, tinctured with no national piejudice, with no domestic affection, to admire, and to hold out to the admiration of mankind, the Constitution of England." the sentence with which he began, and midway, as into an alien and inappropriate construction, thrusting in, parenthetically, a crowd of extraneous matters, having by this means filled his hearer with anxiety lest the sentence should utterly break down, and forced him to sympathize intensely with the perilous effort of the orator, at last beyond expectation, yet in due time, crowning all with the long-desired conclusion, if only by the hazardous and precarious character of such complications, he strikes a far more telling blow. 1 he...

Treatise commonly attributed to Longinus but probably the work of an unknown writer of the 1st century A.D.

Dionysius Cassius Longinus

Longinus on the sublime, tr. by T.R.R. Stebbing

This is the 1907 second edition of W. Rhys Roberts' Longinus on the Sublime. The volume contains the Greek text edited after the Paris manuscript, an extensive introduction, and a thorough and accessible translation of the main text. Roberts' introduction is divided into two parts: the authorship of the Treatise, and its content and character. Roberts is careful to place On the Sublime in its critical context, challenging both the inscription and description of this classical text. The author is thought to be an unknown teacher, and not the historical Longinus, whilst the 'sublime' in this instance is not 'the sublime' as we would commonly understand it. On the Sublime is a text which dissects the problems of literary criticism and the aesthetics of Greek literature. The lively and intelligent style of the text will ensure that Roberts' edition is enjoyed by Greek scholars and general readers alike.

The Greek Text Edited After the Paris Manuscript

Διονυσιου Λογγινου Περι Ὑψους Ὑπομνημα. Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate commentarius, quem nova versione donavit, perpetuis notis illustravit, et ... emendavit ... Z. Pearce. ... Editio tertia. Accessit F. Porti ... commentarius integer nunc primum editus [by H. Wetstein].

Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life, Writings and Character of the Author. By William Smith, ...

Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime

Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author. By William Smith ... The Fifth Edition

chiefly from the text of Weiske: with English explanatory notes and copious indexes

Dionysius Longinus On the sublime

For the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Universities: Illustrated with Notes, Original and Select

A New Literal Translation of Longinus On the Sublime

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