Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations

Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations by Russell, D. A.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780198143604.

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 Aristotles Poetics, Horaces Art of Poetry, and Longinuss On Sublimity, the book includes complete versions of Aristotles Rhetoric Book III, Demetriuss On Style, and Tacituss Dialogue on Orators. Its shorter passages range from Homer to Hermogenes of Tarsus, in addition to selections from Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cicero, the two Senecas, and Quintilian.