Classical Literary Criticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-954981-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 192 g

Reihe: Oxford World's Classics

This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Based on the highly praised Ancient Literary Criticism (OUP, 1972), it contains a new introduction and explanatory notes, and will be of enormous value to students both of Latin and Greek and of literary criticism and theory.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Russell, D A

Winterbottom, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Plato: Ion: Republic 2-3; Republic 10; Aristotle: Poetics; Horace: A Letter to Augustus; The Art of Poetry; Tacitus: Dialogue on Orators; `Longinus': On Sublimity; Dio of Prusa: Philoctetes in the Tragedians; Plutarch: On the Study of Poetry

Über Autor(innen)

D. A. Russell is Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford and M. Winterbottom is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.