Classic to Modern English Literature

On the Sublime (Latin: De Sublimitate ) is a Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism dated to the 1st century C.E. Its author is unknown, but it is conventionally referred to as Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus.   The author is unknown. In the 10th-century reference manuscript ( Parisinus Graecus 2036 ), the heading reports "Dionysius or Longinus," an ascription by the medieval copyist that was misread as " by Dionysius Longinus ." The work was initially attributed to Cassius Longinus (c. 213–273 AD). Since the correct translation includes the possibility of an author named " Dionysius ," some have attributed the work to Dionysius of Halicarnassus , a writer of the 1st century BC.   Among further names proposed are Hermagoras of Temnos (a rhetorician who lived in Rome during the 1st century AD), Aelius Theon (author of a work which had many ideas in common with those of On the Sublime ), and Pompeius Geminus (who was in epistolary conversati