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Longinus
Longinus (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; when the anti-Roman policy he had advocated failed, he was delivered to the Romans, who executed him as a traitor. Of his numerous rhetorical, philosophical, and critical works, only fragments remain. On the Sublime, a Greek treatise of literary criticism, was long attributed to Longinus, but it is now agreed that the author, often known as Pseudo-Longinus, lived in the 1st cent. AD
Bibliography: See D. St. Marin, Bibliography of the Essay on the Sublime (1967).
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Longinus.(Longinus: Book I of the Merlin Factor)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 1/1/2007; 476 words
; Longinus Steven Maines iUniverse 10425 Woodbine Street...television industry veteran Steven Maines presents Longinus: Book I of the Merlin Factor, a novel about the Roman Centurion Longinus who stabbed Jesus Christ as He hung from the cross...
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Moriones reenacts Longinus' beheading.(Tourism)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 4/15/2003; 461 words
; ...legend of the partially blind soldier Longinus, who pierced Christs side, the Lords...eye and his vision was restored. When Longinus told of Christs divinity his soldiers...reenact the crucifixion of Christ, with Longinus, the principal player wearing an unusually...
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Sister Longinus Shields, taught at Sacred Heart in Quincy
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 7/15/2002; 373 words
; BOSTON - Sister Longinus Shields C.S.J. (Catherine Shields), of the congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston for 66 years and the Bethany...
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The motive of return in Matthew Arnold's writings.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1988; ; 700+ words
; In an essay entitled "A Reading of Longinus," Neil Hertz acknowledges the willingness of admirers of Longinus "to release him from the strictures...that both defenders and detractors of Longinus ground their criticism in a distinction...
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The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...French preoccupation with pseudo-Longinus' first-century Greek treatise, Peri Hupsous, or On the Sublime. Longinus suggests, among other things, that...considering in detail the importance of Longinus for seventeenth-century literature...
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Moriones Festival.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/23/2008; 549 words
; ...focus of the festival is the story of Longinus, a Roman centurion who was blind in one eye. It is said that Longinus was assigned to the execution of Jesus...Upon Jesus' death on the cross, Longinus speared His crucified body, causing...
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More on the centurion
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 3/23/2008; 612 words
; ...which states them at factual "Saint Longinus is the centurion who pierced the side...while He was hanging on the Cross. Saint Longinus, who was nearly blind, was healed when...Son of God!' [Mark 15:39]. Saint Longinus then converted, left the army, took...
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Marinduque celebrates the Moriones Festival.(Opinion)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 4/8/2009; 616 words
; ...Saturday, the presentation of the story of Longinus tagged as “Pugutan&...colorful attire and masks.Legend says that Longinus, who had poor eyesight, was the Roman...flowed from the body of Jesus landed on Longinus’ bad eye and he was cured...
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On the technique of the sublime
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...hupsous by an unknown author usually dubbed Longinus. Although this work is no longer at...treatise of its kind (See Guerlac, "Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime," Hertz...completely differently. Wimsatt considered Longinus to be incapable of creating a sufficient...
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Sublime Drag: Supernatural Masculinity in Gothic Fiction
Magazine article from: Gothic Studies; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...struck by how blatantly Walpole disregards Longinus's prescriptive guidance on achieving...grotesquely engorged armoured limbs. Given Longinus's admonition, 'evil are the swellings...a 'strange and alien air' (87). Longinus ascribes many of these extreme tendencies...
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Longinus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Longinus Longinus is the name associated with the Latin treatise commonly known as "On...considerable dispute as to the author of On the Sublime. One Cassius Longinus, born about 210, was a critic, scholar, and teacher of rhetoric...
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Longinus, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Longinus, St. The name traditionally given to the soldier who pierced the side of Christ with a spear. It is also sometimes attributed...
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Cassius (Longinus), Gaius
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Cassius (Longinus), Gaius (d.42 bc) Roman general who led the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar . He sided with Pompey during the war against...
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Sublime, Idea of the
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...this work has been called by tradition "Longinus," and its probable period of composition is the first half-century c.e. Longinus associates the sublime with the feeling...before it like a thunderbolt." Much of Longinus's book is devoted to analysis of some...
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Sublime
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...of a Greek treatise entitled On the Sublime , attributed to Longinus ( c. 1st century ad ), although the word itself had occurred...English—quite frequently in Milton for example. Longinus described the immensity of objects in the natural world...
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