- aesthetic/aesthetics, definitions of
- aesthetic value
- aesthetics and ancient music
- agalma
- ainos (fable)
- aischrologia (obscenity)
- aisthēsis (sense perception)
- akribeia (precision)
- Alexander the Great
- Althusser, Louis
- amoenitas see also locus amoenus
- anger
- Anouilh, Jean
- anthologizing
- apatē see also deception; illusion
- apatheia
- Apelles
- Aphrodite
- of Cnidos (Figure 6.2) see also Praxiteles
- Crouching (Figure 3.4)
- Apollonius of Rhodes and realism
- appropriateness see also decor/decorum
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Archilochus
- architecture
- beauty of
- orders of
- responses to
- skill of
- Tacitus on
- Aristo of Chios, Stoic
- Aristophanes
- Aristophanes of Byzantium
- Aristotle
- Arnold, Matthew
- art, the arts see also craft, fine arts, technē
- Archaic
- and beauty
- epochs of
- forms, relative valuations of
- identification
- medieval and Renaissance
- philosophy of
- and pleasure
- and religion
- responses to
- valuations
- in early Greece
- from Greco-Roman period to 18th century
- in modern age
- variability of
- visual vs literary
- art criticism
- art history
- art market (modern)
- artists, as craftsmen see also craftsmanship, dēmiourgos
- athletics, Greek
- Augustus
- aulos (music for)
- Ausonius
- authenticity
- authority (of poet)
- authorship
- autonomy, aesthetic
- Bakhtin, Mikhail
- Barberini Faun
- Baroque, Hellenistic
- Barthes, Roland
- bath(s) see also water features
- Batteux, Abbé
- Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb
- beauty see also kállos; kalós; pulchritudo
- in architecture
- of children
- civic
- of goddesses
- and goodness
- natural beauty vs. art
- in official titles
- physical
- sexuality and
- of soul
- transcendent
- Beazley, Sir John
- Bernays, Jakob
- biography, biographical approach
- bird
- Boccaccio, Umberto
- bodies, in sculpture
- erotic
- gendered
- heroic
- ideal
- muscular
- Boileau
- bōmolochia (buffoonery)
- books and reading
- booksellers
- Boxer, Terme, (Figure 3.3)
- Boy with Goose
- breath (pneuma)
- brightness see also lamprotēs
- bronze
- building (as process)
- buildings
- Caecilius of Caleacte
- Callimachus
- Calypso’s cave
- canon see kanōn; Polyclitus
- carmen (song)
- catharsis/katharsis
- Catullus
- charis/kharis
- chiaroscuro, see also skiagraphia
- Chigi (olpē)
- choros
- chorus, choral performance
- chrēstographia
- Chrysippus
- cicada
- Cicero,
- classicism
- “classics,” canonisation of in Alexandria
- Cleanthes
- Cleomedes, author of On the Heavens
- closure
- collecting/collections
- Collingwood, R.G.
- colonnades
- color see also polychromy
- colores austeri/floridi
- column/columns
- comedy
- competition, see also mousikoi agōnes
- completeness
- complexity
- concinnitas
- confidence
- contrapposto
- Cornutus
- cosmology
- cosmopolitanism, Hellenistic
- craft (of poetry) see also technē
- craftsman, status of see also dēmiourgos; Hephaestus
- craftsmanship
- Crates of Mallos
- Crouching Aphrodite, (Figure 3.4)
- cult statue
- Daedalus
- daidalon, daidala
- dance
- aesthetics of (definition)
- in relation to Fine Arts
- in relation to other visual arts
- Dante
- deception, see also apatē; illusion
- decor/decorum see also appropriateness
- deinotēs (forcefulness)
- Demetrius of Phaleron
- dēmiourgos
- Democritus
- Demosthenes
- desire see also eros/eroticism
- diastēma
- diction (lexis)
- dignitas
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- Dionysius Thrax
- Dionysus
- dithyramb
- dolos, see also apatē; deception
- drama, Hellenistic
- drapery
- Drunken Old Woman, Munich Glyptothek, (Figure 3.2)
- Duris of Samos
- ekphrasis
- ekplēxis
- Eliot, T.S.
- emmeleia
- emotions
- enargeia
- enchantment see also psychagōgia; thelgein
- Ennius
- entasis see also optical refinements
- epic
- Epicurus, Epicureans
- eros/eroticism see also desire; gaze
- ethics of fiction
- ēthos
- euergete(s), euergetism
- eupatheiai, Stoic
- Euripides
- eurythmia
- euschēmosunē
- Ezekiel, Exagogē
- fear
- festivals
- fiction
- fine arts
- firmitas (stability)
- “flight of the mind”
- flowers,
- Forms, in Plato
- François (vase)
- Freud, Sigmund
- furor poeticus
- Gao Xinjian
- gardens
- gaze, erotic
- genitals, in sculpture
- genius
- genre-crossing in Hellenistic poetry and art
- genus grande (grand style) see also grandeur
- genus tenue (slender style) see also leptotēs
- Gigantomachy, Pergamon
- god, Stoic
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- gold
- Gombrich, Ernst
- Gorgias
- Graces, Three
- grammaticus (teacher of language and literature)
- grandeur see also genus grande; hupsos; sublime
- gymnasium
- habrosunē
- harmonia
- harmony
- harmozō
- hēdonē see pleasure
- Hegel
- Hephaestus, as craftsman
- Hermogenes of Tarsus
- Herodas
- Hesiod
- Hipponax
- history, and fiction
- Homer
- Horace
- huperkalon, to
- hupsos see also grandeur; sublime/sublimity
- “special effect, not a special style”
- synonyms of
- hymns
- iambos/iambus
- illusion, see also apatē; trompe l’oeil
- imagination see also phantasia, visualisation
- imaging
- imitation see also mimēsis
- impersonation see also mimēsis
- innovation, reactions to
- inspiration
- integration of reader/viewer
- in Callimachus’ mimetic hymns
- in Cnidian Aphrodite
- in Munich Drunken Old Woman
- in statue of Chrysippus
- intensity, intensification
- intimacy
- invocation
- Isocrates, style of,
- compared with Demosthenes
- jazz
- Johnson, Samuel
- jokes
- Joyce, James
- judging
- Juvenal
- kállos
- kalós see also beauty
- kanōn (canon)
- Kant, Immanuel
- katharsis see catharsis
- kharis see charis
- King, Martin Luther
- kithara (music for)
- kordax
- kore
- kosmos
- kouros
- Kristeller, Paul Oskar
- labyrinth
- lamprotēs see also brightness
- landscape,
- laughter
- Lawrence, D.H.
- laws (as mimetic)
- Leavis, F.R.
- leptotēs (delicacy, slenderness) see also genus tenue
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
- Libanius
- Library of Alexandria
- life like quality see also realism; verisimilitude
- light
- ligus (clear)
- likelihood
- likeness/eikōn
- line-drawing
- literary criticism
- literature, identification of
- Livius Andronicus
- locus amoenus see also amoenitas
- logos (words, reason),
- Longinus
- Longus
- love see also desire; eros
- in amatory epigram
- in Apollonius of Rhodes
- in visual art
- Lucian
- Lucretius
- Lycophron’s Alexandra
- Lyotard, François
- lyric poetry, choral and monodic
- Lysippus
- Machon
- Macrobius
- magnitude
- Malraux, André
- Mantiklos, dedication by
- marble
- Martial
- Marxism
- Matisse, Blue Nude
- meadows
- medicine
- Melissus
- melody
- Menander and the everyday
- metafiction
- metallurgy
- metaphor
- mētis
- Metrodorus of Athens
- mime theater
- mimēsis
- as following examples
- meta-mimetic
- non-mimetic
- as playing a part
- pleasure-seeking
- as pretense
- mimētikos
- Mimnermus
- mind’s eye
- ‘Modernists’
- modernity (in antiquity)
- Moschion, Themistocles
- mousikē
- mousikoi agōnes
- movement
- Muse(s)
- museum
- music
- instrumental
- for leisure
- for relaxation (anapausis)
- vocal
- Myron
- myth, Greek
- narratology
- naturalism
- nature see also locus amoenus, phusiologia
- New Comedy
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nike of Samothrace
- nomoi (musical)
- novel (modern)
- nude/nudity
- nymphs, nymphaea
- object-image
- Old Shepherdess (or Shepherd), Conservatori
- onyx
- opera
- optical refinements
- oratory
- beauty as a topic in
- and the emotions see also psychagōgia
- and visual arts compared
- orchēsis
- orchestic imaginary
- organism
- ornament(s), adornment see also kosmos; ornamentum; ornatus
- ornamentum
- ornatus
- otium (leisure)
- Ovid
- paean
- painting see also vase-painting; wall-painting
- ancient, Greek
- legal ownership of
- and mimēsis
- Roman
- palace
- Panathenaea
- pantomime
- parody
- Parrhasius
- partheneion
- Pasiteles
- passion see emotion
- passivity of reader/viewer
- pathos see also emotion
- patronage
- patterns
- Pausanias, on monuments and statues
- Peisistratus
- Peplos Kore
- Pericles and sublimity
- persuasion, as seduction see also psychagōgia
- Petrarch
- phantasia see also imagination; visualisation
- pharmaka
- Phidias
- Philetas of Cos
- Philodemus
- Philostratus
- Philoxenus of Cythera
- phusiologia
- picture gallery (pinacotheca)
- pigments
- pilgrimage, literary
- Pindar
- pity
- Plato
- on mimēsis
- as novelist
- style of
- plattein (mould, fashion, invent)
- pleasure (hēdonē)
- Pleiad at Alexandria
- Pliny the Elder
- Pliny the Younger
- plot
- Plotinus
- Plutarch
- pneuma see breath
- poet, as craftsman, see also dēmiourgos
- as herald
- as law-giver
- as prophet see also vates
- poetry
- Aristotle on
- Epicureans on
- as paradigm of eloquence
- place in education
- Plato on
- Plutarch on
- and prophecy
- and prose
- Stoics on
- and visual art, Hellenistic
- poiein
- poiēsis
- poiētēs
- poikilia
- polychromy
- Polyclitus
- Pompeian styles
- Pope, Alexander
- portico, porticoes
- Posidippus
- postmodernism
- Pound, Ezra
- Praxiteles
- pre-emotions
- Presocratics
- ‘Primitivists’
- pro ommatōn
- propatheiai, Stoic
- proportion see also Polyclitus Canon
- Proust
- pseudos (falsehood, fiction)
- psychagōgein
- psychagōgia
- Ptolemy II Philadelphus
- pudica pose
- pulchritudo
- Puttenham, George
- pyrrhichē
- recusatio
- relaxation (anapausis)
- religion
- representation see also mimēsis
- rhetor (teacher of rhetoric)
- rhetoric, and aesthetics
- and architecture
- Aristotelian and Isocratean (sophistic) traditions of
- as a critical discipline
- and the emotions
- and poetry
- as a training regimen
- rhetorical theory
- rhythm
- Richards, I.A.
- Romanitas
- Rome, Augustan
- rustication
- Sappho
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- satire
- satyr play
- satyrs
- scholarship and attitude to the “classics”
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
- sculpture, see also statues
- display of
- and Greek gods
- and Greek heroes
- Hellenistic
- seduction see also enchantment
- semblances (eidōla)
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Elder)
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Younger)
- senses
- in experiencing architecture
- and flowers
- sensory cognition, aesthetics as
- Shakespeare, William
- shame
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Shklovsky, Viktor
- Sidney, Sir Philip
- sikinnis
- silence (siopē)
- Sirens
- skiagraphia
- skolia
- skopos
- Socrates
- Solon
- song
- sophists
- sophos/sophia
- soul, in Plato
- sound
- spectacle
- spectatorship
- and aesthetics
- and cognition
- and visualization
- Spinario
- spoudaios
- stage, staging
- statues see also bodies; kore; kouros; sculpture
- Stesichorus
- Stoics
- on good, bad, and indifferent
- on poetry and art
- on tragedy
- Studius
- style see also genus grande, genus tenue
- Aristotle on
- in oratory and visual arts compared
- quantitative and qualitative types
- “types” of
- “virtues” of
- subjectivity
- sublime
- cosmic, cosmological
- and divinity
- Edmund Burke on
- immaterial
- material
- pre–Longinian
- sublimis, sublimitas
- sublimity see also deinotēs, hupsos
- Suicidal Gaul and his Wife (Figure 3.1)
- summetria/symmetria see also symmetry
- supplementation by reader/viewer
- symmetry see also summetria/symmetria
- symposium
- synaesthesia
- taste
- technē see also craft
- temple(s)
- tenuitas (slenderness) see also genus tenue/leptotēs
- Terpander
- terpsis see also pleasure
- textiles
- texture
- thauma see also wonder
- thaumatopoiia
- theater
- thelgein/thelktēria see also enchantment; seduction
- Theocritus
- Theognis
- Theophrastus
- Thersites
- thesmoi
- Thucydides, on myth and history
- timbre
- Timotheus of Miletus
- toreutics
- touch
- tragedy
- in Aristotle’s Poetics
- in Plato’s Laws
- by Seneca
- Trojan scenes (Iliaka)
- trompe-l’oeil
- Tynnichus
- tyrants, as patrons
- tyrbasia
- Wagner, Richard
- wall-painting
- Boscoreale, P. Fannius Synistor Villa
- Boscotrecase, Agrippa Postumus Villa
- Classical and Hellenistic
- Domus Aurea
- Domus on the Esquiline
- Farnesina Villa
- Herculaneum, Villa dei Papiri
- House of Livia
- House of M. Fabius Secundus
- Pompeii, House of the Cryptoporticus
- Roman
- warfare, Greek
- water features see also baths
- weaving
- wholeness
- Winckelmann
- wonder see also thauma
- Zeno, founder of Stoicism
- Zeuxis