Beauty : the fortunes of an ancient Greek idea / David Konstan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konstan, David, author.

Series:

Onassis series in Hellenic culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Ancient.

Aesthetics.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

1 The Problem with Beauty 1

I Beauty and History 1

II Did the Ancient Greeks Recognize Art? 3

III Did the Ancient Greeks Recognize Beauty? 5

IV Beauty, Sex, and Virtue 8

V Beauty in Art and Life 21

2 Beauty in Greek 31

I Is There a Greek Word for Beauty? 31

II Beauty: The Earliest Evidence 35

III Beauty in Archaic Poetry 43

IV The Classical Period 50

3 The Nature of Beauty 62

I Beauty and Desire 62

II Beauty and Gender: Women, Boys, and Effeminate Men 72

III Beauty and Virtue 80

IV Beauty and the Best: The Role of Class 84

4 Beauty Transfigured 96

I Aesthetic Beauty 96

II Ecphrasis or Pictures into Words 108

III Transcendent Beauty 115

IV Back to Beauty: Themistius's Oration to Gratian 128

5 Beauty across Cultures: Israel and Rome 135

I Beauty in the Bible 136

II Beauty and Desire between Greece and Rome 148

III Beauty and Art 161

6 Greek Beauty Today 170

I The Varieties of Aesthetic Experience 170

II Beauty Ascendant 179

III Beauty Dethroned 186

IV Beauty Reinstated 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-252) and index.

ISBN:

9780199927265

019992726X

OCLC:

877369494