Literary criticism · 1st century AD

On the Sublime

Peri Hupsous

Translated by H. L. Havell (1890)

The Greek treatise on what makes writing great, by an anonymous first-century critic traditionally called Longinus, with quoted passages of Homer, Sappho, Plato and Demosthenes.

Contents · 44 parts

Chapter I4 paragraphs
Chapter II4 paragraphs
Chapter III10 paragraphs
Chapter IV7 paragraphs
Chapter V1 paragraph
Chapter VI1 paragraph
Chapter VII4 paragraphs
Chapter VIII11 paragraphs
Chapter IX48 paragraphs
Chapter X81 lines
Chapter XI3 paragraphs
Chapter XII7 paragraphs
Chapter XIII4 paragraphs
Chapter XIV3 paragraphs
Chapter XV45 paragraphs
Chapter XVI7 paragraphs
Chapter XVII3 paragraphs
Chapter XVIII3 paragraphs
Chapter XIX4 paragraphs
Chapter XX2 paragraphs
Chapter XXI2 paragraphs
Chapter XXII4 paragraphs
Chapter XXIII15 paragraphs
Chapter XXIV1 paragraph
Chapter XXV1 paragraph
Chapter XXVI9 paragraphs
Chapter XXVII45 lines
Chapter XXVIII3 paragraphs
Chapter XXIX2 paragraphs
Chapter XXX2 paragraphs
Chapter XXXI4 paragraphs
Chapter XXXII8 paragraphs
Chapter XXXIII5 paragraphs
Chapter XXXIV5 paragraphs
Chapter XXXV5 paragraphs
Chapter XXXVI7 paragraphs
Chapter XXXVII1 paragraph
Chapter XXXVIII7 paragraphs
Chapter XXXIX4 paragraphs
Chapter XL10 paragraphs
Chapter XLI2 paragraphs
Chapter XLII1 paragraph
Chapter XLIII6 paragraphs
Chapter XLIV14 paragraphs

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