Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Aristophanes' Frogs and the critical tradition
- 2 Readings of Homer: Euripides' Cyclops
- 3 Comic moments
- 4 The ugly peasant and the naked virgins: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Imitation
- 5 The grand and the less grand: ‘Longinus’, On the Sublime
- 6 Reading for life: Plutarch, ‘How the young man should study poetry’
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
Index of passages discussed
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Aristophanes' Frogs and the critical tradition
- 2 Readings of Homer: Euripides' Cyclops
- 3 Comic moments
- 4 The ugly peasant and the naked virgins: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Imitation
- 5 The grand and the less grand: ‘Longinus’, On the Sublime
- 6 Reading for life: Plutarch, ‘How the young man should study poetry’
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
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- Critical Moments in Classical LiteratureStudies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses, pp. 212 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009