Kodai Bungei Ronshu (Seiyo Koten Sosho)

[Machine Translation] On the Sublime," which has been handed down under the name of Longinos since ancient times and has greatly influenced Burke, Kant, and other modern and later aesthetics and art studies, is accompanied by "On Imitation," "On Thucydides," "On Deinarchos," and three related letters by Dionysios of Halicarnassus. All of them are not only practical books of oratory and rhetoric, but also valuable literary criticisms of antiquity by identifying and commenting on a number of authors who should be regarded as canonical.

古来ロンギノスの名の下に伝わり、バークやカントをはじめ近代以降の美学・芸術学にも大きな影響を与えた『崇高について』に、ハリカルナッソスのディオニュシオスによる『模倣論』『トゥキュディデス論』『デイナルコス論』と関連書簡3通を併録。いずれも実践的な弁論術・修辞学書であると同時に、規範とすべき著作家を数多く取りあげ解説することで、古代の貴重な文芸批評にもなっている。