Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Introduction xiii
• 1 - Beginnings 1
• 2 - Plato 39
• 3 - Aristotle 85
• Bibliography 85
• 4 - Demetrius on Style 171
• 5 - Cicero 216
• 6 - Latin Criticism of Poetry 265
• 7 - Greek Augustans 300
• 8 - Declamation and the Senecas 344
• 9 - Quintilian and Pliny 372
• 10 - Tacitus, Dialogue on Orators 432
• 11 - Longinus, on Sublimity 460

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Introduction xiii
• 1 - Beginnings 1
• 2 - Plato 39
• 3 - Aristotle 85
• Bibliography 85
• 4 - Demetrius on Style 171
• 5 - Cicero 216
• 6 - Latin Criticism of Poetry 265
• 7 - Greek Augustans 300
• 8 - Declamation and the Senecas 344
• 9 - Quintilian and Pliny 372
• 10 - Tacitus, Dialogue on Orators 432
• 11 - Longinus, on Sublimity 460
• 12 - Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch: the Greek Revival 504
• 13 - Two Critics of History 534
• 14 - Second- and Third-Century Texts 548
• 15 - Later Greek Rhetoric 561
• Indexes 585