The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception: The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316518816ISBN-10:1316518817UPC:9781316518816Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.20 x 8.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCYQSVBDGD
The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception: The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus
The concept of mimesis has dominated reflection on the nature and role, in Greek literature, of representation. Jonas Grethlein, in his ambitious new book, takes this reflection a step further. He argues that, beyond mimesis, there was an important but unacknowledged strand of reflection focused instead on the nuanced idea of apatē (often translated into English as 'deceit'), oscillating between...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316518816ISBN-10:1316518817UPC:9781316518816Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.20 x 8.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCYQSVBDGD
Grethlein, Jonas: - Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Greek in the Seminar für Klassische Philologie at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His publications include The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE (Cambridge, 2010), Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine (Cambridge, 2013) and Aesthetic...
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