Ancient Literary Criticism

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's <em>Poetics</em> Horace's <em>Art of Poetry</em> and Longinus's <em>On Sublimity</em> the book includes complete versions of Aristotle's <em>Rhetoric Book III</em> Demetrius's <em>On Style</em> and Tacitus's <em>Dialogue on Orators</em>. 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.