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Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Select Bibliography
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Nature and Technique
Chapter 3: Vices: Turgidity, Undergraduate Wit, Parenthyrson
Chapter 4: False Wit
Chapter 5: Novelty
Chapter 6: Critical Decision
Chapter 7: Effects of Sublimity on the Soul
Chapter 8: The Five Springs of Sublimity
Chapter 9: Nobility of Nature: Homer
Chapter 10: Selection
Chapter 11: Development
Chapter 12: Sublimity and Development
Chapter 13: Mimesis and Emulation
Chapter 14: Judgment of the Ancients
Chapter 15: Images
Chapter 16: Oaths
Chapter 17: Concealment of Figures
Chapter 18: Questions and Interrogations
Chapter 19: Omission of Connectives
Chapter 20: Gathering of Figures
Chapter 21: Insertion of Connectives
Chapter 22: Hyperbata
Chapter 23: Polyptota, Athroismoi, Variations, Climaxes
Chapter 24: Singular for Plural
Chapter 25 : Historical Present
Chapter 26: Change of Person
Chapter 27: Shifts in Person
Chapter 28: Periphrasis
Chapter 29: Excessive Periphrasis
Chapter 30: Selection of Words
Chapter 31: Colloquial Idioms
Chapter 32: Number and Use of Tropes
Chapter 33: Whether Excellence with Faults is Better than Faultless Mediocrity
Chapter 34: Demosthenes and Hyperides
Chapter 35: Sublimity and Human Nature
Chapter 36: Excellence with Faults is Superior
Chapter 37: Similes
Chapter 38: Hyperbole
Chapter 39: Rhythm
Chapter 40: Rhythm and Diction
Chapter 41: Agitated Rhythms
Chapter 42: Excessive Syncopation
Chapter 43: Petty Diction
Chapter 44: The Decline of Sublimity
Appendix A: Supplementary Notes
Appendix B: Metaphor in Longinus
Appendix C: Could Philo Have Been One of the Philosophers?
Works Cited in On the Sublime
Names Cited in On the Sublime
Subject Index to On the Sublime
Names Cited in Commentary
Subject Index to Commentary
Other Works in the Arieti Open Access Collection
For Barbara, Samuel, and Ruth J. A.A.
To the memory of Werner Jaeger J.M.C.
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