Ancient Literary Criticism The Principal Texts in New Translations [Paperback]

Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist student. This edition provides for the first time the principal texts in translation, giving the reader a full view of ancient literary criticism and its development. In addition to well-known texts such as Aristotle'sPoetics, Horace'sArt of Poetry, and Longinus'sOn Sublimity, the book includes complete versions of Aristotle'sRhetoric Book III, Demetrius'sOn Style, and Tacitus'sDialogue on Orators. It's shorter passages range from Homer to Hermogenes of Tarsus, in addition to selections from Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cicero, the two Senecas, and Quintilian.

Beginnings; Plato; Aristotle; Demetrius; Cicero; Latin Criticism of Poetry; Greek Augustans; Declamation and the Senecas; Quintilian and Pliny; Tacitus,Dialogue on Orators; `Longinus',on Sublimity; Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch: The Greek Revival; Two Critics of History; Second- and Third-Century Texts; Later Greek Rhetoric; Indexes

A model of its kind. --Times Literary Supplement

Makes the texts of ancient literary criticism accessible as they have never been before. --Times Higher Education Supplement

A useful anthology. I am particularly pleased by the inclusion of Tacitus'Dialogue on Oratorsand Plutarch'sPhilotetes. --William Malin Porter, University of Houston