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Dionysius and Longinus on the Sublime: Rhetoric and Religious Language

2012; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 133; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/ajp.2012.0016

1086-3168

Casper C. de Jonge,

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Longinus' On the Sublime (date unknown) presents itself as a response to the work of the Augustan critic Caecilius of Caleacte. Recent attempts to reconstruct Longinus' intellectual context have largely ignored the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Caecilius' contemporary colleague (active in Rome between 30 and 8 B.C.E. ). This article investigates the concept of hupsos ("the sublime") and its religious aspects in Longinus and Dionysius, and reveals a remarkable continuity between the discourse of both authors. Dionysius' works inform us about an Augustan debate on Plato and the sublime, and thereby provide us with an important context for Longinus' treatise.