Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea PDF
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Beauty Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies William M. Murray Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy Simon Goldhill Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature Henry Maguire Adventures with Iphigenia at Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy Edith Hall Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea David Konstan Frontispiece: Aphrodite’s beauty attracts the erotic gaze of Pan. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Credit: Marie Mauzy / Art Resource, NY. B e au t y THE FORTUNES OF AN ANCIENT GREEK IDEA David Konstan 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978–0–19–992726–5 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For Pura CONT ENTS 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
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