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BEAUTY
THE FORTUNES OF AN ANCIENT GREEK IDEA |
| By: |
David Konstan |
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Hardback |
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£30.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019992726X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199927265 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
2 January, 2015 |
| Series: |
Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
What makes something beautiful? In this engaging, elegant study, David Konstan turns to ancient Greece to address the nature of beauty. |
| Synopsis: |
Those who study the nature of beauty are at once plagued by a singular issue: what does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of disinterested contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is a contested concept, and both sides feel comfortable appealing to the authority of Plato, and via him, to the ancient Greeks generally. So, who is right-if either? Beauty offers an elegant investigation of ancient Greek notions of beauty and, in the process, sheds light on modern aesthetics and how we ought to appreciate the artistic achievements of the classical world itself. The book begins by reexamining the commonly held notion that the ancient Greeks possessed no term that can be unambiguously defined as "beauty" or "beautiful." Author David Konstan discusses a number of Greek approximations before positioning t |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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