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…mehr
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 societyHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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); Music and The Muses: The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City (edited with P. Wilson, 2004).
Inhaltsangabe
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
