Beauty: the fortunes of an ancient Greek idea
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 aest...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-252) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 262 S. Ill. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199927265 |
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CONTENTS
Preface
and Acknowledgments
xi
1.
The Problem with Beauty
1
I. Beauty and History
1
II. Did the Ancient Greeks Recognize Art?
3
III. Did the Ancient Greeks Recognize Beauty?
5
IV. Beauty, Sex, and Virtue
8
V. Beauty in Art and Life
21
2.
Beauty in Greek
31
I. Is There a Greek Word for Beauty?
31
II. Beauty: The Earliest Evidence
35
III. Beauty in Archaic Poetry
43
IV. The Classical Period
50
3.
The Nature of Beauty
62
I. Beauty and Desire
62
II. Beauty and Gender: Women, Boys, and
Effeminate Men
72
χ Ι
Contents
III. Beauty and Virtue
80
IV. Beauty and the Best: The Role of Class
84
4.
Beauty Transfigured
96
I. Aesthetic Beauty
96
II. Ecphrasis or Pictures into Words
108
III. Transcendent Beauty
115
IV. Back to Beauty: Themistius's Oration to Gratian
128
5.
Beauty across Cultures: Israel and Rome
135
I. Beauty in the Bible
136
II. Beauty and Desire between Greece and Rome
148
III
.
Beauty and Art
161
6.
Greek Beauty Today
170
I. The Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
170
II. Beauty Ascendant
179
III. Beauty Dethroned
186
IV. Beauty Reinstated
189
Notes
193
Bibliography
237
Index
253 |
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