Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity - The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

List of contents

Prologue: the Sirens' song; 1. Introduction: the 'as-if' of aesthetic experience. Part I. Narratives: 2. Narratives: experiencing time; 3. The reconfiguration of time in Heliodorus' Ethiopica; 4. Beyond Heliodorus: Francois Ozon, Dans la maison; Part II. Pictures: 5. Pictures: the detached gaze; 6. Seeing (in) ancient vases; 7. Beyond ancient vase-painting: Rabih Mroue, The Fall of a Hair; Epilogue: the Sirens in Los Angeles.

About the author

Jonas Grethlein holds the Chair in Greek Literature in the Department of Classics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. His authored publications include The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth-Century BCE (Cambridge, 2010), Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine (Cambridge, 2013), and Die Odyssee. Homer und die Kunst des Erzählens (2017). He is co-editor of Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The 'Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian (Cambridge, 2012).

Summary

This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific nature of aesthetic experience.

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Grethlein, Jonas (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heide Grethlein, Grethlein Jonas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781107192652
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19265-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, History of Art, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, c 1000 BCE to start of CE period, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE