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29Aesthetics Bychkov Aesthetic Revelation. Reading Ancient and Medieval Texts after Hans Urs von Balthasar. Pp. xviii + 349. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010. Cased, US$79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8132-1731-4. Bychkov, Sheppard Greek and Roman Aesthetics. Pp. xlii + 249. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paper, £17.99, US$30.99 . ISBN: 978-0-521-54792-5 (review)The Classical Review 62 (2): 428-431. 2012.
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27D. Moraitou: Die Äuβerungen des Aristoteles über Dichter und Dichtung auβerhalb der Poetik.(Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 49.) Pp. x+163. Stuttgart, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1994. Cased, DM 58 (review)The Classical Review 45 (02): 438-. 1995.
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26The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern ProblemsPrinceton University Press. 2002.Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of i…Read more
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26Popular Morality, Philosophical Ethics and the RhetoricIn David J. Furley & Alexander Nehamas (eds.), Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays, Princeton University Press. pp. 211-230. 2015.
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25D. Moraitou: Die Äuβerungen des Aristoteles über Dichter und Dichtung auβerhalb der Poetik.(Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 49.) Pp. x+163. Stuttgart, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1994. Cased, DM 58 (review)The Classical Review 45 (2): 438-438. 1995.
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24The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern ProblemsPrinceton University Press. 2002.A comprehensive reassessment of the concept of mimesis in the history of ancient Greek aesthetics and philosophy of art, with particular attention to Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, and neoplatonism. There is also a wide-ranging review of arguments pro and contra the idea of artistic mimesis from the Renaissance to modern literar theory. The book challenges standard accounts in numerous respects and builds a new dialectical model with which to make sense of the entire history of mimeti…Read more
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23Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early ChristianityCambridge University Press. 2008.The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities. Greek society developed distinctive institutions for the celebration of laughter as a capacity which could bridge the gap between humans and gods; but it also feared laughter for its power to expose individuals and groups to shame and even vi…Read more
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21G. F. Held: Aristotle's Teleological Theory of Tragedy and Epic. Pp.x + 162. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1995. Paper, DM 48. ISBN: 3-8253-0300-4The Classical Review 47 (1): 198-199. 1997.
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17The subjection of muthos to logos: Plato's citations of the poetsClassical Quarterly 50 (1): 94-112. 2000.According to Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.3, 995a7–8, there are people who will take seriously the arguments of a speaker only if a poet can be cited as a ‘witness’ in support of them. Aristotle's passing observation sharply reminds us that Greek philosophy had developed within, and was surrounded by, a culture which extensively valued the authority of the poetic word and the poet's ‘voice’ from which it emanated. The currency of ideas, values, and images disseminated through familiarity with poetry…Read more
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17INTRODUCTION: Mimesis and the History of AestheticsIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-34. 2009.
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15A neglected detail in the "Oedipus Tyrannus": where three roads meetJournal of Hellenic Studies 106 187-190. 1986.‘There is surely more than geography involved in the extraordinary stress laid in the play on the importance of the branching road.’ So writes the latest editor of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, R. D. Dawe, who proceeds to mention the ‘sexual significance … ’ which ‘people tell us’ is to be discerned behind the references to the cross-roads where Oedipus met and killed his father. Dawe finds it difficult to make up his mind whether quasi-Freudian symbolism is properly to be attributed to Sophocles…Read more
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15Frontiers of Pleasure: Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought by Anastasia-Erasmia PeponiClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 107 (3): 410-411. 2014.
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15Colloquium 10Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 321-348. 1989.
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13Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to LonginusOxford University Press. 2011.As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias's Helen, Isocrates' treatises, Philodemus' On Poems, and Longinus' On the Sublime. The volume's fundament…Read more
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10Cynthia P. Gardiner: The Sophoclean Chorus. A Study of Character and Function. Pp. x + 205. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987. $22.50 (review)The Classical Review 38 (1): 140-140. 1988.
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9AcknowledgmentsIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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