On the Sublime: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
On the Sublime by Unknown: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 17 original MP3 tracks, 2:55:34 running time and a link to listen.
On the Sublime, credited to Unknown, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of On the Sublime by Unknown. (Translated by Herbert Lord Havell.) Read in English by Amelia Chesley This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as those of Plato, Homer, and Demosthenes. Authorship of this treatise is disputed/unknown, but the text is traditionally attributed to Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus. Introduction by Andrew Lang.(summary by Amelia Chesley, adapted from Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: On the Sublime
- Author credits: Unknown
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 17
- Listed recording duration: 2:55:34
Catalogue topics
- style
- Rhetoric
- Oratory
- aesthetics
- classical rhetoric
Track guide
- 00 - dedication and translator's preface — 3:21
- 01 - Introduction — 28:04
- 02 - chapters I - III — 9:28
- 03 - chapters IV - VIII — 10:31
- 04 - chapter IX — 9:49
- 05 - chapter X - XI — 7:01
- 06 - XII - XIV — 8:07
- 07 - XV — 7:40
- 08 - XVI - XVIII — 9:19
- 09 - XIX - XXIV — 10:48
- 10 - XXV - XXX — 9:10
- 11 - XXXI - XXXII — 8:12
- 12 - XXXIII - XXXIV — 7:24
- 13 - XXXV - XXXVIII — 8:36
- 14 - XXXIX - XLII — 8:31
- 15 - XLIII - XLIV — 11:15
- 16 - Appendix — 18:18
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