"The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious m

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious my

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance o

"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 concep

Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.