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Philodemus: On Poems, Book I - Philodemus, and Janko, Richard (Translated by)
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The On Poems by Philodemus (c.110-35 BC), the Epicurean philosopher and poet who taught Virgil and influenced Horace, is our main source for Hellenistic literary theory. In Book 1 Philodemus summarizes a survey of previously unknown poetic and aesthetic theories. Compiled by Crates of Mallos this survey reviews the critical theories of earlier Epicureans, Peripatetics, and Stoics, who argued in some way that sound is the source of poetic excellence, and that the ear, unaided by the mind, can judge it. Philodemus led the ...

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Philodemus: On Poems, Book I 2003, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199262854

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