...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