LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Latin
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Roman
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Greek
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the Sublime is a treatise on aesthetics and literary criticism originally written in Greek between the first and third centuries AD.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is written in an epistolary form and the final part, possibly dealing with public speaking, has been lost. The treatise is dedicated to Posthumius Terentianus, a cultured Roman and public figure, though little else is known of him.
Detailed explanation-3: -On the Sublime, Greek Peri hypsous, treatise on literary criticism by Longinus, dating to about the 1st century ce. The earliest surviving manuscript, from the 10th century, was first printed in 1554.
Detailed explanation-4: -Longinus defines sublimity (Greek hypsos) in literature as “the echo of greatness of spirit, ” that is, the moral and imaginative power of the writer that pervades a work. Thus, for the first time greatness in literature is ascribed to qualities innate in the writer rather than in the art.
Detailed explanation-5: -Grube, who presents his case eloquently in the “Translator’s Introduction” to his Longinus On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (1957). According to what little is known about him, Cassius Longinus was a Greek living under Roman rule in the eastern Mediterranean, and he wrote in Greek.