A Companion to Ancient AestheticsThe 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.
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Contents
Notes on Contributors | 8 |
Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric | 31 |
The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World | 47 |
Poetry Patronage and Roman Politics | 68 |
Music and Dance in Greece and Rome | 81 |
The Body Human and Divine in Greek Sculpture | 94 |
Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome | 109 |
Architecture and Society | 128 |
Stylistic Landscapes | 291 |
Conceptualizing the Visual Arts Michael Squire | 307 |
aesthetic Issues | 327 |
Fiction | 341 |
Imagination | 354 |
Unity Wholeness and Proportion | 381 |
Poikilia | 406 |
Wonder | 422 |
reflecting on art | 141 |
Poetic Inspiration | 158 |
The Canons of Style | 175 |
Sense and Sensation in Music | 188 |
Dance and Aesthetic Perception | 204 |
Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimesis | 218 |
Ways of Looking at Greek Vases | 237 |
Perceiving Colors | 262 |
Tragic Emotions | 438 |
Laughter | 455 |
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Art and Value | 505 |
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