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A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
Pierre Destrée
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Description for A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
Hardback. The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media oral, aural, visual, and literary. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 552 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 32. Weight in Grams: 996.
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary.
- Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world
- Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume
- Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations
- Raises questions about the similarities and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Condition
New
Weight
984g
Number of Pages
547
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444337648
SKU
V9781444337648
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99-50
About Pierre Destrée
THE EDITORS Pierre Destrée is Associate Researcher at the FNRS and Associate Professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he teaches ancient philosophy. He is the author of a French translation of Aristotle's Poetics (2014) and editor of Plato and the Poets (with F.G. Herrmann, 2011), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
"The editors conceive of “ancient aesthetics” broadly, as encompassing “the multifarious ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world” (p. 1). The thirty-three chapters that make up the volume are similarly wide-ranging in focus and disciplinary approach, while the insights afforded by their interconnections show the value of treating ancient aesthetics as a unified field ... Read more