Verità e sublime. Notazioni su aspetti e funzioni della verità nel trattato dello Pseudo Longino

Abstract

The article deals with the complex and multifaced function of the concept
of ἀλήθεια in the treatise On the Sublime. The analysis allows to highlight the fact
that the author of the critical and rhetorical work does not build up a coherent and
univocal theory of the truth, but adapts functionally the concept to various aims, from
the paideutic purposes to the reflections on the previous literary tradition, but always
with a special attention to the effect of the truth in relationship with the dynamics of
the sublime.