A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics

550 Pages·2015·7.262 MB·English

by  Pierre Destrée, Penelope Murray

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A COMPANION
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Edited by
Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray
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A companion to ancient aesthetics / edited by Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4443-3764-8 (cloth)
1. Aesthetics, Ancient. I. Destrée, Pierre, editor.
BH90.C66 2015
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2015003597
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Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Illustrations xiv
Introduction 1
Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray
Part I art in Context 15
1 Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry 17
Richard P. Martin
2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric 31
Deborah Steiner
3 The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World 47
Graham Zanker
4 Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics 68
Thomas Habinek
5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome 81
Eleonora Rocconi
6 The Body, Human and Divine in Greek Sculpture 94
Rosemary Barrow
7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome 109
Agnès Rouveret
8 Architecture and Society 128
Catherine Saliou
Part II reflecting on art 141
9 Literary Criticism and the Poet’s Autonomy 143
Andrew Ford
10 Poetic Inspiration 158
Penelope Murray
vi Contents
11 The Canons of Style 175
Jeffrey Walker
12 Sense and Sensation in Music 188
Armand D’Angour
13 Dance and Aesthetic Perception 204
Anastasia‐Erasmia Peponi
14 Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimes̄is 218
Hariclia Brecoulaki
15 Ways of Looking at Greek Vases 237
François Lissarrague
16 Displaying Sculpture in Rome 248
Thea Ravasi
17 Perceiving Colors 262
M. Michela Sassi
18 The Beauties of Architecture 274
Edmund Thomas
19 Stylistic Landscapes 291
Nancy Worman
20 Conceptualizing the (Visual) “Arts” 307
Michael Squire
Part III aesthetic Issues 327
21 Mimesis 329
Paul Woodruff
22 Fiction 341
Stephen Halliwell
23 Imagination 354
Anne Sheppard
24 Beauty 366
David Konstan
25 Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion 381
Malcolm Heath
26 The Sublime 393
James I. Porter
27 Poikilia 406
Adeline Grand‐Clément
28 Wonder 422
Christine Hunzinger
29 Tragic Emotions 438
Christof Rapp
Contents vii
30 Laughter 455
Ralph M. Rosen
31 Pleasure 472
Pierre Destrée
32 Art and Morality 486
Elizabeth Asmis
33 Art and Value 505
Michael Silk
Index of Subjects 518
Index of Ancient Texts Discussed 527
Notes on Contributors
Elizabeth Asmis is Professor of Classics at (2001), La peinture funéraire de Macédoine.
the University of Chicago. She is the author Emplois et fonctions de la couleur, IV–IIème
of Epicurus’ Scientific Method (1984) and s. av. J.‐C. (2006), and Mycenaean Painting
numerous articles on Greco‐Roman philoso- in Context: New Discoveries, Old Finds
phy. Her recent work focuses on reception Reconsidered (co‐edited with J. Davis and
in antiquity, with special attention to the Sh. Stocker), in press.
philosophy of the Roman period.
Armand D’Angour is Fellow and Tutor in
Rosemary Barrow is a Reader in Classical Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. His publi-
Art and Reception at the University of cations include articles on ancient Greek
Roehampton. Besides articles on art history music and on Greek and Roman poetry; his
and the classical tradition, she has published book The Greeks and the New: Novelty in
books on classical reception in nineteenth‐ Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience
century art such as Lawrence Alma‐Tadema was published in 2011. He was commis-
(2001) and The Use of Classical Art & sioned by the International Olympic
Literature by Victorian Painters (2007), Committee to compose a Pindaric Ode to
and is co‐author of The Classical Tradition: Athens for the 2004 Olympic Games, and by
Art, Literature, Thought, with Michael Silk the Mayor of London for the London
and Ingo Gildenhard (2014). Her next solo Olympics 2012. A pianist and cellist by train-
project is a forthcoming monograph explor- ing, in 2013 he was awarded a Fellowship by
ing the gendered body in Greek and Roman the British Academy to pursue research into
sculpture. the reconstruction of the sounds and effects
of ancient Greek music.
Hariclia Brecoulaki is an archeologist and
holds a research position at the Institute of Pierre Destrée is a Senior Research Fellow at
Historical Research, Department of Greek the FNRS, and an Associate Professor at the
and Roman Antiquity (The National University of Louvain, where he teaches
Hellenic Research Foundation). Her work ancient philosophy. He is the author of
mainly focuses on issues related to Greek numerous journal articles and book chapters
painting from the Late Bronze Age to the on Greek ethics, and aesthetics. He is the
Roman period, with a particular interest in author of a French translation of Aristotle’s
the technological aspects of ancient poly- Poetics (2014), and he is now working on a
chromy. Her publications include the books book on aesthetic pleasures in ancient Greek
L’esperienza del colore nella pittura funer- philosophy. He has edited several volumes,
aria dell’Italia preromana V–III secolo a.C. including Akrasia in Greek Philosophy: From