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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154325303321

Autore

Konstan David

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-020549-0

0-19-020550-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Onassis series in Hellenic culture Beauty

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics, Ancient

Aesthetics

Greece Civilization To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 The Problem with Beauty -- 2 Beauty in Greek -- 3 The Nature of Beauty -- 4 Beauty Transfigured -- 5 Beauty across Cultures: Israel and Rome -- 6 Greek Beauty Today --  rBibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study has two aims. The first is to determine how the ancient Greeks conceived of beauty - a matter that is not uncontroversial, since some scholars have denied that there existed an autonomous concept of beauty in classical Greece. The second is to identify problems that have beset modern aesthetics, such as whether a work of art can be beautiful if its subject matter is not, and to indicate why these difficulties did not pose a problem for the ancient idea of beauty.