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Subject(s)

• Civilization, Classical [Browse]
• Vision—Social aspects—Greece—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Vision—Social aspects—Rome—History [Browse]

Related name

• Squire, Michael [Browse]

Series

• Senses in antiquity. [More in this series]
• Senses in Antiquity

Summary note

"Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how Greeks and Romans interpreted what they saw, the collection also considers sight in relation to the other senses. This volume brings together a number of interdisciplinary perspectives to deliver a broad and balanced coverage of this subject. Contributors explore the cultural, social and intellectual backdrops that gave rise to ancient theories of seeing, from Archaic Greece through to the advent of Christianity in late antiquity. This series of specially commissioned thematic chapters demonstrate how theories about sight informed Graeco-Roman philosophy, science, poetry rhetoric and art. The collection also reaches beyond its Graeco-Roman visual framework, showcasing how ancient ideas have influenced the longue duree of western sensory thinking. Richly illustrated throughout, including a section of color plates, Sight and the Ancient Senses is a wide-ranging introduction to ancient theories of seeing which will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity"--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 13, 2016).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introductory reflections: making sense of ancient sight; 1 Sight and the Presocratics: approaches to visual perception in early Greek philosophy; 2 Sight and the philosophy of vision in Classical Greece: Democritus, Plato and Aristotle; 3 Sight and the perspectives of mathematics: the limits of ancient optics; 4 Sight and reflexivity: theorizing vision in Greek vase-painting; 5 Sight and painting: optical theory and pictorial poetics in Classical Greek art
• 6 Sight and light: reified gazes and looking artefacts in the Greek cultural imagination7 Sight and death: seeing the dead through ancient eyes; 8 Sight and the gods: on the desire to see naked nymphs; 9 Sight and memory: the visual art of Roman mnemonics; 10 Sight and insight: theorizing vision, emotion and imagination in ancient rhetoric; 11 Sight and Christianity: early Christian attitudes to seeing; 12 Sight and blindness: the mask of Thamyris; 13 Sight in retrospective: the afterlife of ancient optics; Bibliography; Index; Plates

ISBN

• 1-315-71923-1
• 1-317-51538-2
• 1-317-51537-4

OCLC

958109441

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315719238

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