Readership: Scholars and students of classics; of literary criticism and literary theory; of aesthetics.
Edited by Andrew Laird, Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University
"Andrew Laird has succeeded in selecting a canon that gives an instructive and stimulating overview of the history of ancient criticism." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
1: Andrew Laird: The value of ancient literary criticism 2: Penelope Murray: Poetic inspiration in early Greece 3: N. J. Richardson: Homeric professors in the age of the sophists 4: Elizabeth Belfiore: A theory of imitation in Plato's `Republic' 5: Stephen Halliwell: Plato and Aristotle on the denial of tragedy 6: A. M. Dale: Ethos and dianoia: `character' and `thought' in Aristotle's Poetics 7: Jacob Bernays: Aristotle on the effect of tragedy 8: N. J. Richardson: Literary criticism in the exegetical scholia to the Iliad: a sketch 9: A. A. Long: Stoic readings of Homer 10: Elizabeth Asmis: Epicurean poetics 11: D. A. Russell: Rhetoric and criticism 12: D. M. Schenkeveld: Theories of evaluation in the rhetorical works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus 13: Doreen C. Innes: Longinus: structure and unity 14: D. M. Schenkveld: The structure of Plutarch's `De audiendis poetis' 15: D. A. Russell: Ars poetica 16: Bruce Gibson: Ovid on reading: reading Ovid. reception in Ovid `Tristia' II 17: T. J. Luce: Reading and response in the `Dialogues' 18: Don Fowler: The Virgil commentary of Servius 19: Thomas G. Rosenmeyer: Ancient literary genres - a mirage? 20: Denis Feeney: Criticism ancient and modern
