Criticism in Antiquity

Aeneid Aeschylus allegory ancient criticism antiquity Appendix argument Aristophanes Aristotle Aristotle's attitudes audience Brutus Caecilius Callimachus century B.C. Chapter character Cicero classical clearly comedy concerned course defence Demetrius Democritus Demosthenes dialogue diction Dinarchus Dionysius Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse discussion distinction doctrine emotion epic epideictic Euripides example expression fact figures forensic genre give Gorgias Greek Hellenistic Hermogenes Hesiod Homer Horace Horace's imitation important inspiration invention Isocrates judgment kind language later Latin lexis literature Longinus lyric means Menander metaphor metre mimēsis mimetic mind moral narrative natural orator oratory passage perhaps persons Philodemus philosophical Pindar Plato Plutarch poems poet poet's Poetics poetry practice principles Proclus prose pupil qualities Quintilian regarded rhetorical Roman seems seen sense sophists soul speech Stoic style stylistic taste teacher texts things thinking thought Thucydides tion tradition tragedy treatise Virgil whole words writers