Beauty the fortunes of an ancient Greek idea

This study has two aims. The first is to determine how the ancient Greeks conceived of beauty - a matter that is not uncontroversial, since some scholars have denied that there existed an autonomous concept of beauty in classical Greece. The second is to identify problems that have beset modern aest...

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1. Verfasser: Konstan, David 1940-2024 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Onassis series in Hellenic culture
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The problem with beauty
  • Beauty in Greek
  • The nature of beauty
  • Beauty transfigured
  • Beauty across cultures : israel and Rome
  • Greek beauty today