On Great Writing (On the Sublime)

Download or read book On Great Writing (On the Sublime) written by Longinus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The complete translation, from the Greek of A. O. Prickard's Oxford text, features an introduction by Grube, establishing the historical and critical context of the work, and a biographical index.