Companion to Ancient Aesthetics

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 Myths (with C. Collobert and F. Gonzalez, 2012), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics (with M. Deslauriers, 2013), and What Is Up to Us? Causality and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy (with R. Salles and M. Zingano, 2014). Penelope Murray was Senior Lecturer and a founding member of the Department of Classics at the University of Warwick, UK, before retiring in 2008. She continues to work on early Greek poetry and poetics, on philosophical responses to Athenian song-culture, especially the views of Plato, and on ancient literary criticism. Her publications include Genius: The History of an Idea (Blackwell, 1989), Plato on Poetry (1996), Classical Literary Criticism (2000), and Music and the Muses: The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City (edited with P. Wilson, 2004).

"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 of inquiry. Most of the essays would serve as excellent starting points for research on their topics, and several make important new contributions to scholarship. This book is now the most comprehensive resource available for helping us understand how the Greeks and Romans thought about art."Christopher C. Raymond, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017

• Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Pierre Destrée and Penelope MurrayPart I Art in Context 151 Greece 17Richard P. Martin2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric 31Deborah Steiner3 The Hellenistic World 47Graham Zanker4 Rome 68Thomas Habinek5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome 81Eleonora Rocconi6 Greek Sculpture 94Rosemary Barrow7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome 109Agnès Rouveret8 Architecture and Society 128Catherine SaliouPart II Reflecting on Art 1419 Literary Criticism and the Poet’s Autonomy 143Andrew Ford10 Poetic Inspiration 158Penelope Murray11 The Canons of Style 175Jeffrey Walker12 Sense and Sensation in Music 188Armand D’Angour13 Dance and Aesthetic Perception 204Anastasia]Erasmia Peponi14 Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimes̄ is 218Hariclia Brecoulaki15 Ways of Looking at Greek Vases 237François Lissarrague16 Displaying Sculpture in Rome 248Thea Ravasi17 Perceiving Colors 262M. Michela Sassi18 The Beauties of Architecture 274Edmund Thomas19 Stylistic Landscapes 291Nancy Worman20 Conceptualizing the (Visual) “Arts” 307Michael SquirePart III Aesthetic Issues 32721 Mimesis 329Paul Woodruff22 Fiction 341Stephen Halliwell23 Imagination 354Anne Sheppard24 Beauty 366David Konstan25 Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion 381Malcolm Heath26 The Sublime 393James I. Porter27 Poikilia 406Adeline Grand]Clément28 Wonder 422Christine Hunzinger29 Tragic Emotions 438Christof Rapp30 Laughter 455Ralph M. Rosen31 Pleasure 472Pierre Destrée32 Art and Morality 486Elizabeth Asmis33 Art and Value 505Michael SilkIndex of Subjects 518Index of Ancient Texts Discussed 527