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A companion to ancient aesthetics / / edited by Pierre Destree and Penelope Murray |
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-119-01019-5 |
1-119-00977-4 |
1-119-06391-4 |
1-4443-3764-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (550 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; What Is "Ancient Aesthetics"?; The Organization of This Companion; Note; References; Further Reading; Part I Art in Context; Chapter 1 Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry; Festivals; Symposia; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric; Law-giver; Symposiast; Fabricant and Donor; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3 The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World |
Cosmopolitanism and the "Idea" of a Classic Poikilia; Leptotēs; The Hellenistic Baroque; Realism; Reader/Viewer Activity: Integration and Supplementation; Reader/Viewer Passivity; Spectacle; Psychagōgia; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 4 Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics; Public and Private Literary Activity in Regal and Republican Rome; Poetry and Power, from Catullus through Ovid; Places for Poetry in Imperial Rome: Schools, Households, Contests, and the Court; The Persistence of a Classical Aesthetic; References; Further Reading |
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Chapter 5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome Introduction; The Culture of Mousikē in Archaic and Classical Greece; Musical Performances between Greece and Rome; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 6 The Body, Human and Divine in Greek Sculpture; Art and Religion; The Peplos Kore and the Aphrodite of Cnidos; Polyclitus's Doryphoros and the Barberini Faun; Human and Divine; References; Further Reading; Chapter 7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome; Introduction; Triumph and Collections of Greek Art in Rome; Roman Collections and Aesthetics: The Theme of the Picture Gallery |
The Evidence from Domestic Wall-Painting in Rome and in the Vesuvian Cities Conclusion; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8 Architecture and Society; Building, Public and Private; From Architectural to Civic Beauty; The Civic World of Imperial Times: An Obsession with Beauty; The Patrimony of Empire; References; Further Reading; Part II Reflecting on Art; Chapter 9 Literary Criticism and the Poet's Autonomy; Art (tekhnē) and Autonomy; The Poet's Autonomy in Poetics Ch. 25; Poetic Autonomy and Politics; Poetic Autonomy in Aristophanes' Frogs; Conclusions; Notes; References |
Further Reading Chapter 10 Poetic Inspiration; Inspiration and Craft; Inspiration and Authority; Inspiration and Value; Poetry, Technē, and Poiēsis; Authorship and Authority; Inspiration, Criticism, and Theory; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 11 The Canons of Style; Introduction: Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics; The Archaic Background; Unfortunate Necessities: Aristotle on Rhetoric; Aristotle on Style; After Aristotle: Hellenistic Advances; Types of Style; Conclusion; References; Further Reading; Chapter 12 Sense and Sensation in Music; Responses to Music and Mousikē |
Elements of Greek Musical Sound |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges |
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