Dionysii Longini - "De Sublimitate Liber" ["On the Sublime"]- The Greek Text with Latin Translation and Schardam's Philological Dissertation and Notes by George Millar / [Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate Commentarius - Curante Georgio Miller, Collegii Dublinensis Olim Socio. (Including: Petro Joanne Schardam - "Dissertatio Philologica De Vita et Scriptis Longini")]

Anonymus [Cassius Longinus, Dionysius / [Pseudo-Longinus] / Schardam, Petro Joanne.

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Editio Altera. Octavo (14 cm x 21 cm). V, 257, [30 unnumbered] pages, including "Index Vocum et Phrasium Memorabilium" / "Index Auctorum" / "Index Sectionum". Plus a16-page-catalogue of "W.B.Kelly's Scholastic and other Publications" bound at the rear. Original Hardcover / Publisher's cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Foxing Name of preowner on titlepage: "Geo. Sheehan - Cork". ["Notwithstanding his many avocations, Longinus composed a great number of works, which appear to have been held in the highest estimation, all of which have perished. It was once thought that the extant rhetorical treatise 'On the Sublime' was written by him, but it is now thought to have been written by an unknown 1st century writer" (Wikipedia)]. Cassius Longinus (Greek: c. 213 273 AD), also known as Dionysius Cassius Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus, was a Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic. Born in either Emesa or Athens, he studied at Alexandria under Ammonius Saccas and Origen the Pagan, and taught for thirty years in Athens, one of his pupils being Porphyry. Longinus did not embrace the Neoplatonism then being developed by Plotinus, but continued as a Platonist of the old type and his reputation as a literary critic was immense. During a visit to the east, he became a teacher, and subsequently chief counsellor to Zenobia, queen of Palmyra. It was by his advice that she endeavoured to regain her independence from Rome. Emperor Aurelian, however, crushed the revolt, and Longinus was executed. The origin of his gentile name Cassius is unknown; it can only be conjectured that he was the client to some Cassius Longinus, or that his ancestors had received the Roman franchise through the influence of some Cassius Longinus. He was born about 213, and was killed in 273, at the age of sixty. The suggestion that his original name was Dionysius arose only because the 1st century rhetorical treatise On the Sublime was ascribed to a "Dionysius or Longinus" in the medieval period. His native place is uncertain; some say that Longinus was a born in Emesa, while others say he was born in Athens. The Suda states that Fronto of Emesa, the uncle of Longinus, taught rhetoric at Athens, and on his death in Athens left behind him Longinus, the son of his sister Frontonis. It would seem that Fronto took special care of the education of his nephew, and on his death-bed he made him his heir. In the preface to his work On Ends, which is preserved in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, Longinus himself relates that from his early age he made many journeys with his parents, that he visited many countries and became acquainted with all those who at the time enjoyed a great reputation as philosophers, among whom the most illustrious were Ammonius Saccas, Origen the Pagan, Plotinus, and Amelius. Of the first two Longinus was a pupil for a long time, but Longinus did not embrace the Neoplatonism then being developed by Ammonius and Plotinus, rather he continued as a Platonist of the old type. Longinus in his study of philosophy made himself thoroughly familiar with Plato's works; and that he himself was a genuine Platonist is evident from the fragments still extant, as well as from the commentaries he wrote on several of Plato's dialogues. The few fragments of his commentaries which have come down to us show that he was free from the allegorical notions by which his contemporaries claimed to have discovered the wisdom of the ancients. His commentaries not only explained the subject-matter discussed by Plato, but also his style and diction. In opposition to Plotinus, Longinus upheld the doctrine that the Platonic ideas existed outside the divine Nous. Plotinus, after reading his treatise On First Principles, remarked that Longinus might be a scholar, but that he was no philosopher. After Longinus had learnt all he could from Ammonius at Alexandria and the other philosophers whom he met in his travels, he returned to Athens. He there devoted himself with so.

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• Titre: Dionysii Longini - "De Sublimitate Liber" ["On the Sublime"]- The Greek Text with Latin Translation and Schardam's Philological Dissertation and Notes by George Millar / [Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate Commentarius - Curante Georgio Miller, Collegii Dublinensis Olim Socio. (Including: Petro Joanne Schardam - "Dissertatio Philologica De Vita et Scriptis Longini")]
• Éditeur: Dublin, D.Graisberry
• Date de parution: 1820
• Langue: anglais
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