Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity
Title | Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004232826 |
How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the ‘value’ of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the ‘life without the Muses’ to ‘the Sublime’, and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics. Aesthetic value in classical antiquity should be of interest to classicists, cultural and art historians, and philosophers.
Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity
Title | Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Aesthetics, Classical |
ISBN |
How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the 'value' of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the 'life without the Muses' to 'the Sublime', and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics
Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity
Title | Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004231676 |
Thinking about sensory experiences and evaluating human artifacts is an important part of Western European cultural and intellectual history. This book investigates from different perspectives the origins of this practice and the rich discourse of aesthetic value in classical antiquity.
KAKOS, Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity
Title | KAKOS, Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2009-01-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9047443144 |
The fourth in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical Antiquity, this volume examines the negative foils, the anti-values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and calibrated in Classical Antiquity. Eighteen chapters address this theme from different perspectives –historical, literary, legal and philosophical. What makes someone into a prototypically ‘bad’ citizen? Or an abomination of a scholar? What is the relationship between ugliness and value? How do icons of sexual perversion, monstruous emperors and detestable habits function in philosophical and rhetorical prose? The book illuminates the many rhetorical manifestations of the concept of ‘badness’ in classical antiquity in a variety of domains.
Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity
Title | Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Jonas Grethlein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2017-11-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 110719265X |
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.
The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece
Title | The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | James I. Porter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-10-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781316630259 |
This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth-century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Greek aesthetics, he argues, originated in an attention to the senses and to matter as opposed to the formalism and idealism that were enshrined by Plato and Aristotle and through whose lens most subsequent views of ancient art and aesthetics have typically been filtered. Treating aesthetics in this way can help us reveal the commonly shared basis of the diverse arts of antiquity. Reorienting our view of the ancient vocabularies of art and experience around matter and sensation, this book dramatically changes how we look upon the ancient achievements in these same areas.
City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity
Title | City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Rosen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2017-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9047409183 |
The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches—archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each.