The sublime in antiquity /

• Main Author: Porter, James I., 1954- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Subjects: Κάλλος (Αισθητική).; Ελλάδα > Αρχαιότητες; Ρώμη > Αρχαιότητες

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 exper...