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1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Series |
The Senses in Antiquity |
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Senses in antiquity.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317515388 |
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1317515382 |
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