Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations

Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations......Page 3
PREFACE......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
A. HOMER......Page 17
B. HESIOD: THE POET AND THE MUSES......Page 18
D. PINDAR......Page 19
F. ANECDOTES OF THE POETS......Page 20
G. GORGIAS: THE POWER OF LOGOS......Page 22
H. ARISTOPHANES, FROGS 830-1481......Page 24
A. RHAPSODES AND INSPIRATION......Page 55
B. POETRY IN EDUCATION......Page 66
C. THE TRUE NATURE OF IMITATION......Page 82
E. RHETORIC, ACTUAL AND IDEAL......Page 91
F. REAL AND ASSUMED TASTES......Page 97
G. PLEASURE AS A CRITERION-BUT WHOSE PLEASURE?......Page 98
H. CAUSES OF DECLINE......Page 100
A. POETICS......Page 101
B. CATHARSIS (Politics 1341b32 ff.)......Page 148
D. PROSE STYLE (Rhetoric 3)......Page 150
4. DEMETRIUS ON STYLE......Page 187
A. WHO SHOULD JUDGE ORATORS? Brutus 183-200......Page 232
B. THE PROGRESS OF GREEK ORATORY Brutus 25-51......Page 235
C. CATO Brutus 61-76......Page 240
D. ATTICUS ON CATO Brutus 292-9......Page 242
E. THE NATURE OF ELOQUENCE De oratore 1. 80-95......Page 244
G. WHICH PHILOSOPHICAL SECT SHOULD THE ORATOR CHOOSE? De oratore 3.54-71......Page 249
H. \'ATTIC\' ORATORY......Page 253
I. THE THREE STYLES AND THE PERFECT ORATOR Orator 75-121......Page 256
J. THE BEST TYPE OF ORATOR De optimo genere oratorum......Page 266
K. HISTORY De oratore 2. 51-8......Page 271
L. THE USE OF WORDS De oratore 3. 149-81......Page 272
A. A POET DEFENDS HIMSELF  Terence, Andria......Page 281
B. A DEFENCE OF SATIRE Horace: Satires 1. 4......Page 282
C. MORE ABOUT LUCILIUS AND SATIRE Horace: Satires 1. 10......Page 285
D. A LETTER TO AUGUSTUS Horace: Epistles 2. 1......Page 288
E. THE ART OF POETRY Horace: Ars Poetica......Page 295
F. A POET\'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Ovid: Tristia 4. 10. 1-64......Page 308
G. POETRY AND MORALITY Ovid: Tristia 2. 353 ff.......Page 309
H. IMMORTALITY THROUGH POETRY Ovid: Amores 1. 15......Page 313
I. THE TRUE POET Petronius 118......Page 314
A. AGAINST ERATOSTHENES\' VIEW THAT POETRY IS ENTERTAINMENT Strabo 1. 2. 3-9......Page 316
B. ROME AND THE CLASSICAL REVIVAL Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, praefatio......Page 321
C. DEMOSTHENES Dionysius......Page 323
D. ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS De compositione verborum......Page 337
A. DISPUTE ABOUT THE SON OF A MAN WHO EXPOSED A CHILD AND A WOMAN WHO WAS DIVORCED Controversia (338)......Page 360
B. CICERO DELIBERATES WHETHER TO BEG ANTONY\'S PARDON Suasoria......Page 365
C. DECLAMATION AND THE FORUM Conroversiae: Preface to Book 3......Page 370
D. OVID IN THE SCHOOLS Controversiae 2. 2. 8-9, 12.......Page 374
E. THE DECAY OF ORATORY Preface to Book I of the Controversiae, §§ 6-10......Page 375
F. THE ABSURDITIES OF DECLAMATION Petronius: Satyricon (1-4)......Page 377
G. STYLES AND MORALS Seneca: Letter (114)......Page 378
H. SPEED IN ORATORY Seneca: Epist. 40. 11-14......Page 383
I. THE STYLE FOR A PHILOSOPHER Seneca: Letter (100)......Page 384
J. SENECA ON HIS PREDECESSORS Aulus Gellius:  Nights in Attica 12. 2......Page 386
A. DECLAMATION AND REALITY......Page 388
B. THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPRESSION......Page 390
C. READING IN THE SCHOOLS OF RHETORIC......Page 393
D. READING FOR THE ADVANCED STUDENT......Page 396
E. IMITATION......Page 416
F. TYPES OF ORATORY......Page 420
G. THE GOOD MAN SKILLED IN SPEAKING......Page 433
1. TO TACITUS: ON BREVITY (1. 20)......Page 439
2. TO CEREALIS: ON PUBLIC RECITALS (2. 19)......Page 442
3. TO VOCONIUS ROMANUS: SENT WITH A COPY OF PLINY\'S PANEGYRIC (3. 13)......Page 443
4. TO PATERNUS: MORALITY IN POETRY (4. 14)......Page 444
5. TO LUPERCUS: ON THE SUBLIME (9. 26)......Page 445
10. TACITUS, DIALOGUE ON ORATORS......Page 448
11. LONGINUS, ON SUBLIMITY......Page 476
A. PHILOCTETES IN THE TRAGEDIANS......Page 520
B. ON THE STUDY OF POETRY Plutarch: De audiendis poetis 1-8 =\rMoralia 14 d ff.......Page 523
C. COMPARISON OF ARISTOPHANES AND MENANDER Plutarch: Moralia 853 a ff.......Page 547
D. ON READING COMEDY AT DINNER Plutarch: Table Talk (Quaestiones Convivales 7. 8. 4-10)......Page 549
A. MALICE IN HISTORY Plutarch: \rThe Malice of Herodotus (Moralia 854 ff.)......Page 550
B. HOW TO WRITE HISTORY Lucian......Page 552
1. HISTORY, POETRY, AND PANEGYRIC (§§ 6-13)......Page 553
2. THE IDEAL HISTORIAN AND HIS WORK (§§ 34-64)......Page 556
A. VIRGIL, THEOCRITUS, AND HOMER Aulus Gellius 9. 9......Page 564
B. VIRGIL AND PINDAR Aulus Gellius 17. 10......Page 566
D. MALE AND FEMALE STYLES Aristides Quintilianus......Page 568
E. POETRY AND PROSE Aristides......Page 574
A. HERMOGENES, ON TYPES......Page 577
B. ON INVENTED HYMNS Menander......Page 595
C. PROPEMPTICA (VALEDICTIONS)......Page 596
I. INDEX OF GREEK AND LATIN TERMS......Page 601
II. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES......Page 602
III. GENERAL INDEX......Page 616