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CONTENTS Abbreviations ix Dates of Major Authors and Critics xi 1. The Value of Ancient Literary Criticism 1 andrew laird 2. Poetic Inspiration in Early Greece 37 penelope murray 3. Homeric Professors in the Age of the Sophists 62 n. j. richardson 4. A Theory of Imitation in Plato's Republic 87 elizabeth belfiore 5. Plato and Aristotle on the Denial of Tragedy 115 stephen halliwell 6. Ethos and Dianoia: 'Character' and 'Thought' in Aristotle's Poetics 142 a. m. dale 7. Aristotle on the Effect of Tragedy 158 jacob bernays (translated by Jennifer Barnes; introduction by Jonathan Barnes) 8. Literary Criticism in the Exegetical Scholia to the Iliad: A Sketch 176 n. j. richardson 9. Stoic Readings of Homer 211 a. a. long 10. Epicurean Poetics 238 elizabeth asmis 11. Rhetoric and Criticism 267 d. a. russell 12. Theories of Evaluation in the Rhetorical Works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus 284 d. m. schenkeveld 13. Longinus: Structure and Unity 300 doreen c. innes 14. The Structure of Plutarch's De Audiendis Poetis 313 d. m. schenkeveld 15. 'Ars Poetica' 325 d. a. russell 16. Ovid on Reading: Reading Ovid. Reception in Ovid, Tristia 2 346 bruce gibson 17. Reading and Response in the Dialogus 380 t. j. luce 18. The Virgil Commentary of Servius 414 don fowler 19. Ancient Literary Genres: A Mirage? 421 thomas g. rosenmeyer 20. Criticism Ancient and Modern 440 denis feeney Acknowledgements 455 Suggestions for Further Reading 457 Index 479
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Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Criticism -- Greece.
Criticism -- Rome.