Jonas Grethlein (Germany Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg)

The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception

The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus

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Produktbeschreibung

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature, of representation. It argues that the key concept of apate (meaning both 'deception' and 'aesthetic illusion') was used by writers from the Classical to the Imperial periods to entwine aesthetics with ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781316518816
• ISBN-10: 1316518817
• Artikelnr.: 61499846

Autorenporträt

Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Greek in the Seminar für Klassische Philologie at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His publications include The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE (Cambridge, 2010), Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine (Cambridge, 2013) and Aesthetic Experience and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures (Cambridge, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Gorgias and the justice of tragic apat
; 2. The circulation and significance of apat
in the Classical era; 3. The dramatic entanglement of aesthetic illusion with deceit in Sophocles' Electra; 4. Immersion and corruption in Plato's Republic; 5. The void of Hellenistic criticism; 6. The appeal and challenge of apat
in Imperial criticism: Plutarch's De audiendis poetis; 7. Lucian and the spell of philosophy; 8. How to read ekphrasis: Tabula Cebetis; 9. Christian polemics against idolatry: Clement of Alexandria's Protrepticus; 10. The aesthetics of deception reconfigured in Heliodorus' Ethiopica; 11. From deep-fake to psychotherapy: The aesthetics of deception today.