by Longino · Acantilado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416011148
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What makes Homer, Plato, or Sappho immortal authors? Didn't their art lie in the ability to awaken the highest feelings in the reader? These are some of the questions posed by 'On the Sublime,' an essential work of precepts published in Rome in the first half of the 1st century. Its influence can be seen in several treatises by Seneca and, together with Aristotle's 'Poetics,' it was part of the precepts at least until the 10th century. In 1674, Boileau translated it, rescuing it from oblivion, and since then, and despite the fact that it is estimated that the gaps in the text preserved today represent more than a quarter of the original, 'On the Sublime' is a work of reference.
