A companion to ancient aesthetics / edited by Pierre Destree and Penelope Murray.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media-oral, aural, visual, and literary. -Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world -Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume -Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations -Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society.