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Longinus, active 1st century

LC control no.n 84160046
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingLonginus, active 1st century
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Variant(s)Dionisio Longino, active 1st century
Longino, active 1st century
Longino, Dionisio, active 1st century
Longinos, active 1st century
Longinus, 1st cent.
Pseudo Longino, active 1st century
Pseudo-Longinos, active 1st century
Pseudo-Longinus, active 1st century
Λογγῖνος, active 1st century
Beginning date00
Profession or occupationRhetoricians
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHis On the sublime, 1984: CIP t.p. (Longinus)
Pauly-Wissowa: subheading under "Longinos," the neoplatonist philosopher of 3d cent. (Pseudo-Longinos, author of On the sublime, who cannot possibly be correctly identified with any known real Longinus)
Oxford classical dict. (Longinus, Ps.-Longinus; name commonly assigned to the unknown author of On the sublime, owing to its long but mistaken association with Cassius Longinus; was probably a first-century rhetor (fl. A.D. 890?))
Encyc. Britannica, micropaedia (Longinus; fl. early 1st cent. A.D.; name sometimes assigned to the author of On the sublime)
Grant, M. Greek & Latin authors, 1980 (Longinus; name traditionally assigned to the Greek literary critic who wrote the treatise On the sublime (Peri hupsous); incorrectly identified as Dionysius Longinus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, or Cassius Longinus, ca. 213-273; the author lived in the earlier part of the 1st cent. A.D.)
Papyros Larous (under the name Longinos passes the work Peri hypsous [On the sublime], a work of the first part of the 1st cent.; not by Kassios Longinos)
Da Longino a Longino, 1987: p. 7 (Pseudo Longino)
His Del sublime, c1991: t.p. (Dionisio Longino)
Brill's new Pauly online, 2 October 2013 (Longinus, Λογγῖνος)
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