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Author:   Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.722kg
ISBN:  

9780199258659

ISBN 10:   0199258651
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   04 May 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Andrew Laird: The value of ancient literary criticism 2: Penelope Murray: Poetic inspiration in early Greece 3: N. J. Richardson: Homeric professors in the age of the sophists 4: Elizabeth Belfiore: A theory of imitation in Plato's `Republic' 5: Stephen Halliwell: Plato and Aristotle on the denial of tragedy 6: A. M. Dale: Ethos and dianoia: `character' and `thought' in Aristotle's Poetics 7: Jacob Bernays: Aristotle on the effect of tragedy 8: N. J. Richardson: Literary criticism in the exegetical scholia to the Iliad: a sketch 9: A. A. Long: Stoic readings of Homer 10: Elizabeth Asmis: Epicurean poetics 11: D. A. Russell: Rhetoric and criticism 12: D. M. Schenkeveld: Theories of evaluation in the rhetorical works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus 13: Doreen C. Innes: Longinus: structure and unity 14: D. M. Schenkveld: The structure of Plutarch's `De audiendis poetis' 15: D. A. Russell: Ars poetica 16: Bruce Gibson: Ovid on reading: reading Ovid. reception in Ovid `Tristia' II 17: T. J. Luce: Reading and response in the `Dialogues' 18: Don Fowler: The Virgil commentary of Servius 19: Thomas G. Rosenmeyer: Ancient literary genres - a mirage? 20: Denis Feeney: Criticism ancient and modern

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This collection...will be of use to both beginners and advanced students. Brian Vickers, TLS

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Andrew Laird is Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University.

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