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245 00 Sight and the ancient senses / |cedited by Michael Squire.
264  1 London ;New York : |bRoutledge, |c2016.
300    1 online resource (337 p.)
336    text |btxt
337    computer |bc
338    online resource |bcr
490 1  Senses in Antiquity
500    Description based upon print version of record.
505 0  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
505 8  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
546    English
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
588    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 13, 2016).
520 2  "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.
650  0 Civilization, Classical.
650  0 Vision |xSocial aspects |zGreece |xHistory |yTo 1500.
650  0 Vision |xSocial aspects |zRome |xHistory.
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700 1  Squire, Michael.
830  0 Senses in antiquity.
906    BOOK