Longinus (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)
Life
Nothing is known with certainty about Longinus (lohn-JI-nuhs). He most likely lived in the first century c.e. and wrote Peri Hypsous (first century c.e.; On the Sublime, 1739) during the reign of Nero (r. 54-68). A substantial part of Longinus’s On the Sublime has been lost. Still, the treatise, Platonic in its rhetoric and Aristotelian in its logic, is perhaps the finest example of literary criticism produced in antiquity. The author is writing to rebut the literary views of Caecilius of Caleacte and, by discussing a parallel set of authors, both...
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