Greek and Roman Aesthetics

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Oleg V. Bychkov (St Bonaventure University, New York) Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Greek and Roman Aesthetics

Oleg V. Bychkov (St Bonaventure University, New York), Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Cambridge University Press
24 June 2010

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; History of Western philosophy; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: 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.

Edited and translated by: Oleg V. Bychkov (St Bonaventure University New York), Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780521839280
ISBN 10: 0521839289
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 24 June 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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). 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).

Reviews for Greek and Roman Aesthetics

...This book, or one much like it, can take the place of the reading lists that many instructors compile when teaching the history of aesthetics... professor can now use Greek and Roman Aesthetics by itself, whether for graduate or upper-undergraduate courses... Bychkov and Sheppard have produced an engaging, scholarly, wide ranging, and handsome book that I will be using in the classroom very soon, as no doubt many other instructors also will. --Nickolas Pappas, City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Philosophical Inquiry