Aesthetic value in classical antiquity

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Boston: Brill (2012)
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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.

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BH108.A37 2012

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Allocating musical pleasure: performance, pleasure, and value in Aristotle's Politics.Elizabeth M. Jones
Amousia: living without the muses.Stephen Halliwell
Art, aesthetics, and the hero in Vergil's Aeneid.Joseph Farrell
Audience, poetic justice, and aesthetic value in Aristotle's Poetics.Elsa Bouchard
Authenticity as an aesthetic value: ancient and modern reflections.Irene Peirano
Captive audience?: the aesthetics of nefas in Senecan drama.Carrie Mowbray
Creating Chloe: education in Eros through aesthetics in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe.Caitlin C. Gillespie
General introduction.Ineke Sluiter & Ralph M. Rosen
Heraclides Criticus and the problem of taste.Jeremy McInerney
Is the sublime an aesthetic value?James I. Porter
More than meets the eye: the aesthetics of (non)sense in the ancient Greek symposium.Alexandra Pappas
Poetry, politics, and pleasure in Quintilian.Curtis Dozier
Popular' aesthetics and personal art appreciation in the Hellenistic age.Craig Hardiman
Senex mensura: an objective aesthetics of seniors in Plato's Laws.Myrthe L. Bartels
Talis oratio qualis vita: literary judgments as personal critiques in Roman satire.Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
Tantae molis erat: on valuing Roman imperial architecture.Bettina Reitz
The aesthetic value of music in Platonic thought.Eleonora Rocconi

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