Ancient Literary Criticism

Name: Ancient Literary Criticism
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ISBN: 9780199258666

ISBN-10: 019925866X

ISBN-13: 9780199258666

Edition: 2005

Authors: Andrew Laird

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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 onkatharsis, 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.

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List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English




The value of ancient literary criticism




Poetic inspiration in early Greece




Homeric professors in the age of the sophists




A theory of imitation in Plato's 'Republic'




Plato and Aristotle on the denial of tragedy




Ethos and dianoia: 'character' and 'thought' in Aristotle's Poetics




Aristotle on the effect of tragedy




Literary criticism in the exegetical scholia to the Iliad: a sketch




Stoic readings of Homer




Epicurean poetics




Rhetoric and criticism




Theories of evaluation in the rhetorical works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus




Longinus: structure and unity




The structure of Plutarch's 'De audiendis poetis'




Ars poetica




Ovid on reading: reading Ovid. reception in Ovid 'Tristia' II




Reading and response in the 'Dialogues'




The Virgil commentary of Servius




Ancient literary genres - a mirage?




Criticism ancient and modern