A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics

Informationen zum Autor THE EDITORS Pierre Destrée is Associate Researcher at the FNRS and Associate Professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he teaches ancient philosophy. He is the author of a French translation of Aristotle's Poetics (2014) and editor of Plato and the Poets (with F.G. Herrmann, 2011), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (with C. Collobert and F. Gonzalez, 2012), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics (with M. Deslauriers, 2013), and What Is Up to Us? Causality and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy (with R. Salles and M. Zingano, 2014). Penelope Murray was Senior Lecturer and a founding member of the Department of Classics at the University of Warwick, UK, before retiring in 2008. She continues to work on early Greek poetry and poetics, on philosophical responses to Athenian song-culture, especially the views of Plato, and on ancient literary criticism. Her publications include Genius: The History of an Idea (Blackwell, 1989), Plato on Poetry (1996), Classical Literary Criticism (2000), and Music and the Muses: The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City (edited with P. Wilson, 2004). Klappentext The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media--oral, aural, visual, and literary.* Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world* Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume* Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations* Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society Zusammenfassung The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media oral, aural, visual, and literary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Pierre Destrée and Penelope MurrayPart I Art in Context 151 Greece 17Richard P. Martin2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric 31Deborah Steiner3 The Hellenistic World 47Graham Zanker4 Rome 68Thomas Habinek5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome 81Eleonora Rocconi6 Greek Sculpture 94Rosemary Barrow7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome 109Agnès Rouveret8 Architecture and Society 128Catherine SaliouPart II Reflecting on Art 1419 Literary Criticism and the Poet's Autonomy 143Andrew Ford10 Poetic Inspiration 158Penelope Murray11 The Canons of Style 175Jeffrey Walker12 Sense and Sensation in Music 188Armand D'Angour13 Dance and Aesthetic Perception 204Anastasia?]Erasmia Peponi14 Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimes is 218Hariclia Brecoulaki15 Ways of Looking at Greek Vases 237François Lissarrague16 Displaying Sculpture in Rome 248Thea Ravasi17 Perceiving Colors 262M. Michela Sassi18 The Beauties of Architecture 274Edmund Thomas19 Stylistic Landscapes 291Nancy Worman20 Conceptualizing the (Visual) "Arts" 307Michael SquirePart III Aesthetic Issues 32721 Mimesis 329Paul Woodruff22 Fiction 341Stephen Halliwell23 Imagination 354Anne Sheppard24 Beauty 366David Konstan25 Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion 381Malcolm Heath26 The Sublime 393James I. Porter27 Poikilia 406Adeline Grand?]Clément28 Wonder 422Christine Hunzinger29 Tragic Emotions 438Christof Rapp30 Laughter 455Ralph M. Rosen31 Pleasure 472Pierre Destrée32 Art and Morality 486Eliz...

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THE EDITORS Pierre Destrée is Associate Researcher at the FNRS and Associate Professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he teaches ancient philosophy. He is the author of a French translation of Aristotle's Poetics (2014) and editor of Plato and the Poets (with F.G. Herrmann, 2011), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (with C. Collobert and F. Gonzalez, 2012), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics (with M. Deslauriers, 2013), and What Is Up to Us? Causality and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy (with R. Salles and M. Zingano, 2014). Penelope Murray was Senior Lecturer and a founding member of the Department of Classics at the University of Warwick, UK, before retiring in 2008. She continues to work on early Greek poetry and poetics, on philosophical responses to Athenian song-culture, especially the views of Plato, and on ancient literary criticism. Her publications include Genius: The History of an Idea (Blackwell, 1989), Plato on Poetry (1996), Classical Literary Criticism (2000), and Music and the Muses: The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City (edited with P. Wilson, 2004).

Klappentext
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media--oral, aural, visual, and literary. * Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world * Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume * Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations * Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society

Inhalt
Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray Part I Art in Context 15 1 Greece 17 Richard P. Martin 2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric 31 Deborah Steiner 3 The Hellenistic World 47 Graham Zanker 4 Rome 68 Thomas Habinek 5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome 81 Eleonora Rocconi 6 Greek Sculpture 94 Rosemary Barrow 7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome 109 Agnès Rouveret 8 Architecture and Society 128 Catherine Saliou Part II Reflecting on Art 141 9 Literary Criticism and the Poet's Autonomy 143 Andrew Ford 10 Poetic Inspiration 158 Penelope Murray 11 The Canons of Style 175 Jeffrey Walker 12 Sense and Sensation in Music 188 Armand D'Angour 13 Dance and Aesthetic Perception 204 Anastasia?]Erasmia Peponi 14 Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimes is 218 Hariclia Brecoulaki 15 Ways of Looking at Greek Vases 237 François Lissarrague 16 Displaying Sculpture in Rome 248 Thea Ravasi 17 Perceiving Colors 262 M. Michela Sassi 18 The Beauties of Architecture 274 Edmund Thomas 19 Stylistic Landscapes 291 Nancy Worman 20 Conceptualizing the (Visual) "Arts" 307 Michael Squire Part III Aesthetic Issues 327 21 Mimesis 329 Paul Woodruff 22 Fiction 341 Stephen Halliwell 23 Imagination 354 Anne Sheppard 24 Beauty 366 David Konstan 25 Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion 381 Malcolm Heath 26 The Sublime 393 James I. Porter 27 Poikilia 406 Adeline Grand?]Clément 28 Wonder 422 Christine Hunzinger 29 Tragic Emotions 438 Christof Rapp 30 Laughter 455 Ralph M. Rosen 31 Pleasure 472 Pierre Destrée 32 Art and Morality 486 Elizabeth Asmis 33 Art and Value 505 Michael Silk Index of Subjects 518 Index of Ancient Texts Discussed 527

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