{"product_id":"a-companion-to-ancient-aesthetics-isbn-9781444337648","title":"A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first of its kind, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Ancient Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRaises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustrations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierre Destrée and Penelope Murray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Art in Context 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Greece 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard P. Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Steiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Hellenistic World 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraham Zanker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Rome 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Habinek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleonora Rocconi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Greek Sculpture 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRosemary Barrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgnès Rouveret\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Architecture and Society 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine Saliou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Reflecting on Art 141\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Literary Criticism and the Poet’s Autonomy 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Ford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Poetic Inspiration 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePenelope Murray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Canons of Style 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Sense and Sensation in Music 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArmand D’Angour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Dance and Aesthetic Perception 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnastasia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eErasmia Peponi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimes̄ is 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHariclia Brecoulaki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Ways of Looking at Greek Vases 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrançois Lissarrague\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Displaying Sculpture in Rome 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThea Ravasi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Perceiving Colors 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eM. Michela Sassi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Beauties of Architecture 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdmund Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Stylistic Landscapes 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Worman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Conceptualizing the (Visual) “Arts” 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Squire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Aesthetic Issues 327\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Mimesis 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Woodruff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Fiction 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Halliwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Imagination 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Sheppard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Beauty 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Konstan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion 381\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalcolm Heath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Sublime 393\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames I. Porter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Poikilia 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdeline Grand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eClément\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Wonder 422\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Hunzinger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Tragic Emotions 438\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristof Rapp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Laughter 455\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRalph M. Rosen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Pleasure 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierre Destrée\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Art and Morality 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Asmis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Art and Value 505\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Silk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Subjects 518\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Ancient Texts Discussed 527\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The editors conceive of “ancient aesthetics” broadly, as encompassing “the multifarious ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world” (p. 1). The thirty-three chapters that make up the volume are similarly wide-ranging in focus and disciplinary approach, while the insights afforded by their interconnections show the value of treating ancient aesthetics as a unified field of inquiry. Most of the essays would serve as excellent starting points for research on their topics, and several make important new contributions to scholarship. This book is now the most comprehensive resource available for helping us understand how the Greeks and Romans thought about art.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher C. Raymond, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTHE EDITORS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePierre Destrée\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and editor of \u003ci\u003ePlato and the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Up to Us? Causality and Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e in Ancient Philosophy (with R. Salles and M. Zingano, 2014).  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePenelope Murray\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGenius: The History of an Idea\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1989), \u003ci\u003ePlato on Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eClassical Literary Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Muses: The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City\u003c\/i\u003e (edited with P. Wilson, 2004).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO ANCIENT AESTHETICS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDITED BY PIERRE DESTRÉE AND PENELOPE MURRAY\u003c\/b\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA companion to ancient aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e responds to, and reflects on, the arts in the ancient world. the history of western thinking about such matters goes back to the greeks, when the arts, in one form or another, were a central feature of public life, evaluated and discussed long before alexander baumgarten published his \u003ci\u003eAesthetica\u003c\/i\u003e in 1750 and established aesthetics as a distinct philosophical discipline. greek speculations on the nature of artistic experience have profoundly shaped our culture, and this volume explores the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors take a broad view in their discussions, moving away from analysis of the classical antecedents of eighteenth-century aesthetics to discuss ancient aesthetics as a subject in its own right. the first of its kind, the volume 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. the essays present an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics that challenges traditional demarcations and raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988600930533,"sku":"NP9781444337648","price":212.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444337648.jpg?v=1761780923","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-ancient-aesthetics-isbn-9781444337648","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}