| Description |
xi, 372 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 357-364. |
| Contents |
The beginnings of criticism -- Homer Hesiod -- The homeric Hymms -- The age of lyric -- Moral criticism -- Pindar -- The tragedians -- The sophists -- Comedy: Aristophanes -- Thucydides, Socrates, Isocrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- The politics -- The poetics -- Art as imitation -- Comedy, epic and tragedy -- The definition of tragedy -- Catharsis for whom? -- The elements of tragedy -- The plot -- Peripety and recognition -- The tragic character -- Language -- Tragedy and history -- Tragedy and epic -- Criticism -- Miscellaneous advice -- The rhetoric -- Theophrastus -- Demetrius on style -- Alexandria -- Asianism: Hegesias -- Literary scholarship in Alexandria -- The schools of philosophy -- The academy -- The stoics -- The peripatetics -- The revival of rhetoric: Hermagoras -- Note on the tractatus Coislinianus -- Roman Beginnings -- Plautus -- Terence -- Polybius -- Lucilius -- Varro -- The ad Herennium -- Cicero: The education of the orator -- Philodemus -- On poetry -- Rhetoric -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Horace -- Ars poetica -- The letter to Augustus -- From Augustus to Nero -- Seneca the Elder -- |
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Criticism -- Greece.
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Criticism. |
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Greece. |
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Criticism -- Rome.
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