Greek and Roman Aesthetics
Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Editors and translators:
- Oleg V. Bychkov, St Bonaventure University, New York
- Anne Sheppard, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Date Published: June 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521547925
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This anthology of philosophical texts by Greek and Roman authors brings together works from the late fifth century BC to the sixth century AD that comment on major aesthetic issues such as the perception of beauty and harmony in music and the visual arts, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement. It includes important texts by Plato and Aristotle on the status and the role of the arts in society and in education, and Longinus' reflections on the sublime in literature, in addition to less well-known writings by Philodemus, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, Augustine and Proclus. Most of the texts have been newly translated for this volume, and some are available in English for the first time. A detailed introduction traces the development of classical aesthetics from its roots in Platonism and Aristotelianism to its ultimate form in late Antiquity.
Read more- Puts together a unique range of material covering music, the visual arts and beauty
- Promotes a better appreciation of the richness and diversity of classical aesthetics
- Makes important texts by Philodemus, Philostratus and Aristides Quintilianus available to non-specialist readers
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- Date Published: June 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521547925
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 151 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Gorgias: Encomium of Helen
Plato: Ion
Hippias Major
Symposium
Republic
Phaedrus
Timaeus
Sophist
Xenophon: Memoirs of Socrates
Aristotle: Poetics
Politics
Philodemus: On Poems
On Music
Cicero: On Rhetorical Invention
On the Ideal Orator
Orator
On Moral Ends
On the Nature of the Gods
Tusculan Disputations
On Duties
Seneca: Letters to Lucilius
On the Award and Reception of Favours
Longinus: On Sublimity: Philostratus: Life of Apollonius of Tyana
Pictures
Philostratus the Younger: Pictures
Aristides Quintilianus: On Music
Plotinus: Enneads
Augustine: On Order
On Music
On True Religion
On Free Choice of the Will
Confessions
On the Trinity
Proclus: Commentary on the Timaeus
Commentary on the Republic
Anonymous: Prolegomena to the Philosophy of Plato.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Aesthetics
- Ancient Cultures
- Greek Political Thought
- History of Classical Art - the Mediterrean World
- History of Literary Criticism
- Literary Theory: History of Criticism
- Philosophy of Art
- What is Art For?
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