Echoes of longinus in gregory of Nyssa

Vigiliae Christianae

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 395-400

  Heath, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84856939469     PISSN: 00426032     EISSN: 15700720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157007299X00253     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. On Gregory's critique of Eunomius' style in general see E. Norden, Die Antike Kunstprosa (Stuttgart 1915) 558-562;
2. C. Klock, Untersuchungen zu Stil und Rhythmus bei Gregor von Nyssa (Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 173) Frankfurt 1987, 145-158. So far as I am aware, the connection with Longinus has not been noticed previously.
3. On Longinus see L. Brisson and M. Patillon, Longinus Platonicus Philosophus et Pmlologuss I. Longinus Philosophuss ANRW 2.36.7 (1994) 5214-5299;
4. Longinus Platonicus Philosophus et Philologus, II. Longinus Philologus, ANRW 2.34.4 (1998) 3023-3108;
5. M. Heath, Longinus On Sublimity, PCPS (forthcoming, 1999) The Art o, Rhetoric is known from an extensive fragment (179-97 Spengel-Hammer) and an epitome by Michael Psellus (208-12 Spengel-Hammer)
6. re-edited in P. Gautier, Michel Psellos et la rhétorique de Longin, Prometheus 3 (1977) 193-199 Ihe comment on Thucydides is preserved only in the epitome (212.3 Spengel-Hammer = 88 Gautier). Since Psellus was the epitoma-tor, the occurrence of in his Chronographia (6.33) is presumably also dependent on Longinus.
7. Gregory: 2.339; 1.81, 3.3.27, 3.5.26; 3.7.1. For Longinus see 214.13, 28 Spengel-Hammer, and the fragment of the Philological Discourses quoted by Lachares 294.14-35, in H. Graeven, Ein Fragment des Lachares, Hermes 30 (1895) 289-313.
8. A number of other parallels between Philo and On Sublimity have been noted in the past: see D.A. Russell (ed.), 'Longinus' On the Sublime (Oxford 1964) xxix-xxx. There is no consensus as to whether these parallels prove that the author of On Sublimity had read Philo.