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On the Sublime

by active 1st century Longinus

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Chapters

5 total

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

1:51

ANALYSIS

2:37

INTRODUCTION - TREATISE ON THE SUBLIME

2:20:23

NOTES ON LONGINUS

9:42

APPENDIX - SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LESS KNOWN WRITERS MENTIONED IN THE TREATISE ON THE SUBLIME

22:58

Description

Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sublime

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~2 hours (170K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Louise Hope, Justin Kerk and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2006-03-10

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17957

Subjects

Rhetoric, Ancient Sublime, The PA

About the author

active 1st century Longinus

Best known as the traditional name attached to On the Sublime, this mysterious ancient critic shaped how later readers thought about powerful writing and artistic greatness. Even now, the work stands out for its lively ideas about language, emotion, and the force of style.

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