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This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.

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'A very useful selection.' Dr M. S. Silk, King's College, London
'A very useful collection.' Anne Sheppard, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
'An excellent collection.' M. J. Blumenthal, University of Liverpool
'A fine selection at an attractive price. It is good to see some less well known texts of ancient criticism included.' Dr Alison Sharrock, University of Keele
'I welcome this book particularly for the less familiar authors not easily accessible to students.' Dr M. A. Bromley, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill
'extremely useful to students' P. E. Easterling, University College, London
'An excellent anthology' Dr A. P. Baldwin, Cambridge University

Table of Contents
Plato: Ion: Republic 2-3; Republic 10; Aristotle: Poetics; Horace: A Letter to Augustus; The Art of Poetry; Tacitus: Dialogue on Orators; `Longinus': On Sublimity; Dio of Prusa: Philoctetes in the Tragedians; Plutarch: On the Study of Poetry

Classical Literary Criticism Oxford Worlds

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 10 July 2008
      ISBN-13 9780199549818
      978-0199549818
      ISBN-10 0199549818
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: ancient, classical

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.

      Trade Review
      'A very useful selection.' Dr M. S. Silk, King's College, London
      'A very useful collection.' Anne Sheppard, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
      'An excellent collection.' M. J. Blumenthal, University of Liverpool
      'A fine selection at an attractive price. It is good to see some less well known texts of ancient criticism included.' Dr Alison Sharrock, University of Keele
      'I welcome this book particularly for the less familiar authors not easily accessible to students.' Dr M. A. Bromley, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill
      'extremely useful to students' P. E. Easterling, University College, London
      'An excellent anthology' Dr A. P. Baldwin, Cambridge University

      Table of Contents
      Plato: Ion: Republic 2-3; Republic 10; Aristotle: Poetics; Horace: A Letter to Augustus; The Art of Poetry; Tacitus: Dialogue on Orators; `Longinus': On Sublimity; Dio of Prusa: Philoctetes in the Tragedians; Plutarch: On the Study of Poetry

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