Greek and Roman Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-83928-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Reihe: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bychkov, Oleg V.

Sheppard, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Bychkov, Oleg V.
Oleg V. Bychkov is Professor of Theology, Chair, Department of Theology, St Bonaventure University, New York. He is the co-translator and co-editor, with Allan Bernard Wolter, of John Duns Scotus: The Examined Report of the Paris Lecture (Reportatio I-A), Vol. 1 and 2 (2004 for Vol. 1, 2008 for Vol. 2), and the co-editor, with James Fodor, of Theological Aesthetics After Von Balthasar (2008).

Sheppard, Anne
Anne Sheppard is Reader in Ancient Philosophy and Head of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Studies of the 5th and 6th Essays of Proclus' Commentary on the Republic (1980) and of Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (1987).