Longinus
On the Sublime
1st century AD
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Sublimity is the echo of a great mind. It does not persuade — it transports. When you encounter the sublime, you feel not that you have been convinced but that you have been elevated. What text are you trying to understand as more than argument?
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- On the Sublime
- Hýpsos
- Elevation
- Transport
- The Lightning-Bolt
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Part of Rhetoric · Classical Scholarship.