C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Longinus (First Century)

Longinus, Cassius (lon-jī’nus). A celebrated Greek philosopher and rhetorician; lived about 210–273 A.D.; born at Athens. He taught at Athens till called to Palmyra by Queen Zenobia to be her counselor; he confirmed the Queen in her resolve to resist Roman domination, and on that account was beheaded by order of the Emperor Aurelian. He was a man of vast learning; his biographer calls him a “living library,” a “walking museum.” Of his voluminous writings, all that have come down to us are the prolegomena to Hephæstion’s ‘Metrics,’ and a fragment of a treatise on rhetoric. The valuable little essay on ‘The Sublime,’ commonly attributed to him, is the work of some unknown writer of the first century of our era.

- GENERAL INDEX - SONGS & LYRICS - QUICK INDEX - BIOGRAPHIES - READER’S DIGEST - STUDENT’S COURSE - PORTRAITS - BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD