Ancient Greek Literature
Upon the Sublime
The treatise Upon the Sublime is a work written in the 1st century AD and, although its authorship remains uncertain, it is conventionally attributed to the name Longinus for practical reasons. It takes the form of a letter addressed to Postumius Terentianus, probably a Roman friend or pupil of the author, and concerns the concept of the sublime as “the highest perfection and culmination of linguistic expression,” which leads the reader to ecstasy.
As M. Z. Kopidakis notes in his preface:
Of the works of literary theory and criticism bequeathed to us by Greek antiquity, the most important after Aristotle’s Poetics is Longinus’ On the Sublime.
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Pages: 328
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