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A companion to ancient aesthetics / edited by Pierre Destree and Penelope Murray.
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- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, Ancient.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry / Richard P. Martin
- Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric / Deborah Steiner
- The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World / Graham Zanker
- Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics / Thomas Habinek
- Music and Dance in Greece and Rome / Eleonora Rocconi
- The Body, Human and Divine in Greek Sculpture / Rosemary Barrow
- Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome / Agnès Rouveret
- Architecture and Society / Catherine Saliou
- Literary Criticism and the Poet's Autonomy / Andrew Ford
- Poetic Inspiration / Penelope Murray
- The Canons of Style / Jeffrey Walker
- Sense and Sensation in Music / Armand D'Angour
- Dance adn Aesthetic Perception / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
- Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimēsis / Hariclia Brecoulaki
- Ways of Looking at Greek Vases / Francois Lissarrague
- Displaying Sculpture in Rome / Thea Ravasi
- Perceiving Colors / M. Michela Sassi
- The Beauties of Architecture / Edmund Thomas
- Stylistic Landscapes / Nancy Worman
- Conceptualizing the (Visual) "Arts" / Michael Squire
- Mimesis / Paul Woodruff
- Fiction / Stephen Halliwell
- Imagination / Anne Sheppard
- Beauty / David Konstan
- Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion / Malcolm Heath
- The Sublime / James I. Porter
- Poikilia / Adeline Grand-Clément
- Wonder / Christine Hunzinger
- Tragic Emotions / Christof Rapp
- Laughter / Ralph M. Rosen
- Pleasure / Pierre Destrée
- Art and Morality / Elizabeth Asmis
- Art and Value / Michael Silk.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Companion to ancient aesthetics.
- ISBN:
- 9781119009771
- 1119009774
- 9781119009788
- 1119009782
- 9781119009795
- 1119009790
- OCLC:
- 905450335
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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