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Index
Cover
Title page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
What Is “Ancient Aesthetics”?
The Organization of This Companion
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PART I: Art in Context
CHAPTER 1: Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry
Festivals
Symposia
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CHAPTER 2: Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric
Law-giver
Symposiast
Fabricant and Donor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CHAPTER 10: Poetic Inspiration
Inspiration and Craft
Inspiration and Authority
Inspiration and Value
Poetry, Technē, and Poiēsis
Authorship and Authority
Inspiration, Criticism, and Theory
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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
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CHAPTER 12: Sense and Sensation in Music
Responses to Music and Mousikē
Elements of Greek Musical Sound
Aesthetics of Ancient Rhythm
Aesthetics of Melody, Voice, and Instruments
Conclusion
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CHAPTER 13: Dance and Aesthetic Perception
Taxonomies and Canons
Outlining an Aesthetics of Dance
The Limitations of Mimesis and the Aesthetic Imaginary
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CHAPTER 14: Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimēsis
Introduction: The School of Sicyon, Chrēstographia, and “undecaying beauty”
Physical Resemblance and the Limits of the Visible and the Invisible
The Aesthetics of the “Four-Color Palette”
The Painter’s Material Touch and the Evidence from Surviving Documents of Greek Painting
Conclusion: Artistic Mimēsis and Ways of Seeing
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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CHAPTER 15: Ways of Looking at Greek Vases
Vases versus Painting
Handling the Vase
Connective Dynamics
From Visual Connections to Iconographic Programs
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CHAPTER 16: Displaying Sculpture in Rome
Roman Sculpture and Aesthetics
The Aesthetics of Sculptural Display
Water and Sculpture: Multiplicity and Variability in the Setting of the Sculptures in Roman Imperial Residences
Conclusions
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CHAPTER 17: Perceiving Colors
Are There Different Ways of Perceiving Colors?
The Bright World of the Philosophers
Nature Does It Better
Lightening and Shadowing
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CHAPTER 18: The Beauties of Architecture
“Beautiful” Buildings
Viewing Buildings
Architecture and the Senses
Buildings and Love
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CHAPTER 19: Stylistic Landscapes
Viewing and Reinventing the Locus Amoenus
Pilgrimage I: Remote and Floral Pleasures
Pilgrimage II: In Plato’s Garden
Conclusion: Dreams of Order
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CHAPTER 20: Conceptualizing the (Visual) “Arts”
But Is It “Art”?
Pliny and the Forgings of “Art History”
The Rhetoric of Criticism
Conclusion: Discourse and Cultural Capital
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PART III: Aesthetic Issues
CHAPTER 21: Mimesis
Basic Account of Mimesis
Mimesis in Plato
Aristotle
Mimesis and the Fine Arts
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CHAPTER 22: Fiction
Defining Fiction
Classical Perspectives: Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle
Postclassical Developments
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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CHAPTER 23: Imagination
Phantasia as Visualization
Phantasia as a Means of Going Beyond Everyday Experience
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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CHAPTER 24: Beauty
Introduction
Beauty in Greek: The Problem
Beauty in Greek: A Solution
Beauty and Desire
Beauty and Art
Transcendent Beauty
Can a Picture of Something Ugly Be Beautiful?
Is There Beauty Without Desire?
Beauty and Goodness
The Varieties of Aesthetic Response
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CHAPTER 25: Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion
Plato: Appropriately Constructed Wholes
Aristotle: Bound and Bounded Unities
“Everyone, so to speak”: Proportion
Plotinus: Form
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CHAPTER 26: The Sublime
Testing the Limits of an Idea
The Manifold Traditions of the Sublime before Longinus
The Sublime as an Aesthetic Value
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CHAPTER 27: Poikilia
Defining Poikilia. From Colors to Versatility: An Evolution toward Abstraction?
The Arts of Poikilia: Virtuosity, Perfection, and Harmony
What Poikilia Does: Pleasure, Enchantment, and Attraction
How Poikilia Works: Capturing the Eye and Synaesthesia
An Evolution in the Taste for Poikilia
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CHAPTER 28: Wonder
Thaumazein: A Modality of Looking
The Specificity of Aesthetic Thauma
Between Acceptance and Suspicion: Two Conceptions of Aesthetic Thauma
Between Cognitive Power and Emotional Vertigo
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CHAPTER 29: Tragic Emotions
Emotions in Ancient Aesthetics
Emotions in Greek tragedy
Early Reflections on the Nature of Emotions
Plato on the Distorting Effects of Poetry and Music
Aristotle on the Arousal of Pity and Fear in Tragedy
Aristotelian Katharsis of Emotions
Tragedies and Emotions in the Roman World
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CHAPTER 30: Laughter
Greek Symposiarchs on Laughter
Aristophanes and the Taxonomy of Laughter
Horace and Roman Satirical Laughter
Plato and Aristotle on Comedy and Laughter
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CHAPTER 31: Pleasure
Aesthetic Attitude
Plato on Pure and Impure Pleasures
Aristotle on Emotional and Intellectual Pleasures of Art
Gorgias on Imagining Possible Worlds
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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CHAPTER 32: Art and Morality
Plato: Reforming Poetry
Aristotle: Defending Poetry
The Stoics: A Moral Point of View
The Epicureans: Seeking Pleasure
Conclusion
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CHAPTER 33: Art and Value
Categories and Complications
Assessing Art and Assessing Epochs
Ancient versus Modern
Early Greece
Conclusions
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Index of Subjects
Index of Ancient Texts Discussed
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