Greek and Roman aesthetics /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Gorgias : from Encomium of Helen
- Plato : from Ion, Hippias Major, Symposium, Republic, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Sophist
- Xenophon : from Memoirs of Socrates
- Aristotle : from Poetics, Politics 8
- Philodemus : from On poems 5, On music
- Cicero : from On rhetorical invention, On the ideal orator, Orator, On moral ends, On the nature of the Gods, Tusculan disputations, On duties
- Seneca : from Letters to Lucilius, On the award and reception of favours
- Longinus : from On sublimity
- Philostratus : from Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Pictures preface
- Philostratus the Younger : from Pictures preface
- Aristides Quintilianus : from On music
- Plotinus : from Enneads
- Augustine : from On order, On music, On true religion, On free choice of the will, Confessions, On the Trinity
- Proclus : from Commentary on the Timaeus, Commentary on the Republic
- From Anonymous prolegomena to the philosophy of Plato.
