biography
| name: |
Longinus
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also called Dionysius Longinus and Pseudo-Longinus
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pronunciation:
[lonjiynus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (fl. 1st-c)
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| biography:
| Name assigned to the Greek author of the surviving portion of a treatise on excellence in literature, On the Sublime, which influenced many Neoclassical writers, such as Dryden and Pope; about a third of the manuscript (in its earliest form, dating from the 10th-c) is lost. Several attempts have been made to identify the author, without success. |
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