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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784832403321

Titolo

Oxford readings in ancient literary criticism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Laird

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-90520-4

0-19-151457-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 p.)

Collana

Oxford readings in classical studies

Altri autori (Persone)

LairdAndrew, Dr.

Disciplina

880/.09

Soggetti

Classical literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - Greece

Criticism - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-478) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Dates of Major Authors and Critics; 1. The Value of Ancient Literary Criticism; 2. Poetic Inspiration in Early Greece; 3. Homeric Professors in the Age of the Sophists; 4. A Theory of Imitation in Plato's Republic; 5. Plato and Aristotle on the Denial of Tragedy; 6. Ethos and Dianoia: 'Character' and 'Thought' in Aristotle's Poetics; 7. Aristotle on the Effect of Tragedy; 8. Literary Criticism in the Exegetical Scholia to the Iliad: A Sketch; 9. Stoic Readings of Homer; 10. Epicurean Poetics; 11. Rhetoric and Criticism

12. Theories of Evaluation in the Rhetorical Treatises of Dionysius of Halicarnassus13. Longinus: Structure and Unity; 14. The Structure of Plutarch's How to Study Poetry; 15. 'Ars Poetica'; 16. Ovid on Reading: Reading Ovid. Reception in Ovid, Tristia 2; 17. Reading and Response in Tacitus' Dialogus; 18. The Virgil Commentary of Servius; 19. Ancient Literary Genres: A Mirage?; 20. Criticism Ancient and Modern; Acknowledgements; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index of Principal Passages Cited; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

The literary criticism of classical Greece and Rome has had an extensive influence on modern thought. The important ancient critics discussed in this book include Plato, Aristotle and Horace. This volume has a helpful introduction, chronology and suggestions for further reading. It



will appeal to any readers with interests in literature, criticism or aesthetics. All Latin and Greek quotations are translated. - ;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 cri