Greek and Roman Aesthetics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Cambridge University Press, 6/24/2010
EAN 9780521547925, ISBN10: 052154792X

Paperback, 294 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English

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.

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.