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Longinus (literature) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Longinus (Greek: , Longĩnos ) is the conventional name of the author of the treatise, On the Sublime (Περὶ ὕψους, Perì hýpsous ), a work which focuses on the effect of good writing. Longinu...
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Saint Longinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Holy Spear, aka the Lance of Longinus a Roman soldier. Thought to have pierced the side of Jesus Christ. ... The thieves on both sides of Jesus had their legs broken, but when the Roman soldiers reached Jesus, one of them, reportedly a centurion named Gaius Cassius Longinus (see note below), saw he was already dead...
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The translation from Roberts' Longinus on the Sublime (Cambridge University Press, 1899) was scanned and edited by Agathon for Peithô's Web. No liability for errors etc. is accepted. Comments and corrections are welcomed.
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Longinus--On the Sublime ... Longinus, like Horace, takes a pragmatic position. His central question is, what is good writing, and how may it be achieved? His first answer is that good writing partakes of what he calls the "sublime." OK, so far that isn't terribly helpful.
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Longinus, writing in the classical historical tradition says that the sublime implies that man can, in emotions and in language, transcend the limits of the human condition. Longinus's approach is contradistinguished from Plato's declaration of poetic inspiration as dangerous divine madness or the poet as liar.
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"The Spear or Lance of Longinus is the legendary/apocryphal name given to the weapon that pierced the side of Christ, Longinus being supposed to be the name of the legionary who did the piercing.
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Longinus, c. 213–273, Greek rhetorician and philosopher (Cassius Longinus), c. 213–273, Greek rhetorician and philosopher of the Neoplatonic school. He taught rhetoric at Athens. He later became counselor to Queen Zenobia of Palmyra;
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The Centurion is sometimes known as Gaius Cassius Longinus. There was such a person, a Roman General, who plotted against Julius Caesar who was assassinated on the Ides of March - the Feast Day of the Centurion of Calvary...
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