Literary Criticism In Antiquity by Peter Atkins
A concise survey of ancient approaches to literary evaluation that traces how Greek and Roman thinkers developed concepts and methods for interpreting and judging texts. It examines key authors and practices—from Homeric commentaries and Plato’s objections through Aristotle’s Poetics, Hellenistic Alexandrian scholarship and textual criticism, and works such as Longinus’ On the Sublime to Roman critics like Horace, Quintilian, and Cicero—while exploring central ideas (mimesis, catharsis, genre, style, rhetoric) and the critic’s role in shaping canons and transmitting texts.
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