TY - BOOK ID - 4886724 TI - The sublime in antiquity PY - 2016 SN - 9781107037472 1107037476 9781139775304 1108743757 1316375366 1316377369 1316376362 1316378365 131637436X 1139775308 1316365360 9781316374368 1316371360 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sublime, The. KW - Sublime KW - Longinus, KW - Greece KW - Rome KW - Grèce KW - Antiquities. KW - Antiquités KW - Greece. KW - Rome (Empire). KW - Grèce KW - Antiquités KW - Sublime, The KW - Antiquities KW - Longinus, Dionysius Cassius, KW - Longinus, Dionysius Cassius, - 0213?-0273 KW - Greece - Antiquities KW - Rome - Antiquities KW - Aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4886724 AB - Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns. Once we train our sights on these patterns a radically different prospect on the sublime in antiquity comes to light, one that touches everything from its range of expressions to its dates of emergence, evolution, role in the cultures of antiquity as a whole, and later reception. This book is the first to outline an alternative account of the sublime in Greek and Roman poetry, philosophy, and the sciences, in addition to rhetoric and literary criticism. It offers new readings of Longinus without privileging him, but instead situates him within a much larger context of reflection on the sublime in antiquity. ER -