Beauty and the Gods: A History from Homer to Plato - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691250205ISBN-10:691250200UPC:9780691250205Book Category:Philosophy, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Ancient and Classical, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:9.29 x 6.14 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.101Product ID:SCPPZYVG8N
Beauty and the Gods: A History from Homer to Plato
How ideas and experiences of beauty informed human relationships with the divine in ancient Greece
Beginning with the earliest Greek literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, beauty was seen as having a special connection with the divine. The gods of ancient Greece were defined by their exceptional beauty; even today, 'to look like a Greek god' is proverbial for human beauty. In Beauty and the...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691250205ISBN-10:691250200UPC:9780691250205Book Category:Philosophy, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Ancient and Classical, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:9.29 x 6.14 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.101Product ID:SCPPZYVG8N
Hugo Shakeshaft is the A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He previously held fellowships at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the University of Oxford and in 2023 received the College Art Association's Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize.
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