Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- What Is "Ancient Aesthetics"? -- The Organization of This Companion -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Part I Art in Context -- Chapter 1 Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry -- Festivals -- Symposia -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric -- Law-giver -- Symposiast -- Fabricant and Donor -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World -- Cosmopolitanism and the "Idea" of a Classic -- Poikilia -- Leptotēs -- The Hellenistic Baroque -- Realism -- Reader/Viewer Activity: Integration and Supplementation -- Reader/Viewer Passivity -- Spectacle -- Psychagōgia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics -- Public and Private Literary Activity in Regal and Republican Rome -- Poetry and Power, from Catullus through Ovid -- Places for Poetry in Imperial Rome: Schools, Households, Contests, and the Court -- The Persistence of a Classical Aesthetic -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome -- Introduction -- The Culture of Mousikē in Archaic and Classical Greece -- Musical Performances between Greece and Rome -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6 The Body, Human and Divine in Greek Sculpture -- Art and Religion -- The Peplos Kore and the Aphrodite of Cnidos -- Polyclitus's Doryphoros and the Barberini Faun -- Human and Divine -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome -- Introduction -- Triumph and Collections of Greek Art in Rome -- Roman Collections and Aesthetics: The Theme of the Picture Gallery.

The Evidence from Domestic Wall-Painting in Rome and in the Vesuvian Cities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Architecture and Society -- Building, Public and Private -- From Architectural to Civic Beauty -- The Civic World of Imperial Times: An Obsession with Beauty -- The Patrimony of Empire -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II Reflecting on Art -- Chapter 9 Literary Criticism and the Poet's Autonomy -- Art (tekhnē) and Autonomy -- The Poet's Autonomy in Poetics Ch. 25 -- Poetic Autonomy and Politics -- Poetic Autonomy in Aristophanes' Frogs -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Poetic Inspiration -- Inspiration and Craft -- Inspiration and Authority -- Inspiration and Value -- Poetry, Technē, and Poiēsis -- Authorship and Authority -- Inspiration, Criticism, and Theory -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 The Canons of Style -- Introduction: Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics -- The Archaic Background -- Unfortunate Necessities: Aristotle on Rhetoric -- Aristotle on Style -- After Aristotle: Hellenistic Advances -- Types of Style -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Sense and Sensation in Music -- Responses to Music and Mousikē -- Elements of Greek Musical Sound -- Aesthetics of Ancient Rhythm -- Aesthetics of Melody, Voice, and Instruments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Dance and Aesthetic Perception -- Taxonomies and Canons -- Outlining an Aesthetics of Dance -- The Limitations of Mimesis and the Aesthetic Imaginary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14 Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimēsis -- Introduction: The School of Sicyon, Chrēstographia, and "undecaying beauty" -- Physical Resemblance and the Limits of the Visible and the Invisible.

The Aesthetics of the "Four-Color Palette" -- The Painter's Material Touch and the Evidence from Surviving Documents of Greek Painting -- Conclusion: Artistic Mimēsis and Ways of Seeing -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15 Ways of Looking at Greek Vases -- Vases versus Painting -- Handling the Vase -- Connective Dynamics -- From Visual Connections to Iconographic Programs -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16 Displaying Sculpture in Rome -- Roman Sculpture and Aesthetics -- The Aesthetics of Sculptural Display -- Water and Sculpture: Multiplicity and Variability in the Setting of the Sculptures in Roman Imperial Residences -- Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17 Perceiving Colors -- Are There Different Ways of Perceiving Colors? -- The Bright World of the Philosophers -- Nature Does It Better -- Lightening and Shadowing -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 The Beauties of Architecture -- "Beautiful" Buildings -- Viewing Buildings -- Architecture and the Senses -- Buildings and Love -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Stylistic Landscapes -- Viewing and Reinventing the Locus Amoenus -- Pilgrimage I: Remote and Floral Pleasures -- Pilgrimage II: In Plato's Garden -- Conclusion: Dreams of Order -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Conceptualizing the (Visual) "Arts" -- But Is It "Art"? -- Pliny and the Forgings of "Art History" -- The Rhetoric of Criticism -- Conclusion: Discourse and Cultural Capital -- References -- Further Reading -- Part III Aesthetic Issues -- Chapter 21 Mimesis -- Basic Account of Mimesis -- Mimesis in Plato -- Aristotle -- Mimesis and the Fine Arts -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22 Fiction -- Defining Fiction -- Classical Perspectives: Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle.

Postclassical Developments -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23 Imagination -- Phantasia as Visualization -- Phantasia as a Means of Going Beyond Everyday Experience -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24 Beauty -- Introduction -- Beauty in Greek: The Problem -- Beauty in Greek: A Solution -- Beauty and Desire -- Beauty and Art -- Transcendent Beauty -- Can a Picture of Something Ugly Be Beautiful? -- Is There Beauty Without Desire? -- Beauty and Goodness -- The Varieties of Aesthetic Response -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25 Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion -- Plato: Appropriately Constructed Wholes -- Aristotle: Bound and Bounded Unities -- "Everyone, so to speak": Proportion -- Plotinus: Form -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 26 The Sublime -- Testing the Limits of an Idea -- The Manifold Traditions of the Sublime  before Longinus -- The Sublime as an Aesthetic Value -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27 Poikilia -- Defining Poikilia. From Colors to Versatility: An Evolution toward Abstraction? -- The Arts of Poikilia: Virtuosity, Perfection, and Harmony -- What Poikilia Does: Pleasure, Enchantment, and Attraction -- How Poikilia Works: Capturing the Eye and Synaesthesia -- An Evolution in the Taste for Poikilia -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28 Wonder -- Thaumazein: A Modality of Looking -- The Specificity of Aesthetic Thauma -- Between Acceptance and Suspicion: Two Conceptions of Aesthetic Thauma -- Between Cognitive Power and Emotional Vertigo -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 29 Tragic Emotions -- Emotions in Ancient Aesthetics -- Emotions in Greek tragedy -- Early Reflections on the Nature of Emotions -- Plato on the Distorting Effects of Poetry and Music.

Aristotle on the Arousal of Pity and Fear in Tragedy -- Aristotelian Katharsis of Emotions -- Tragedies and Emotions in the Roman World -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 30 Laughter -- Greek Symposiarchs on Laughter -- Aristophanes and the Taxonomy of Laughter -- Horace and Roman Satirical Laughter -- Plato and Aristotle on Comedy and Laughter -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31 Pleasure -- Aesthetic Attitude -- Plato on Pure and Impure Pleasures -- Aristotle on Emotional and Intellectual Pleasures of Art -- Gorgias on Imagining Possible Worlds -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 32 Art and Morality -- Plato: Reforming Poetry -- Aristotle: Defending Poetry -- The Stoics: A Moral Point of View -- The Epicureans: Seeking Pleasure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 33 Art and Value -- Categories and Complications -- Assessing Art and Assessing Epochs -- Ancient versus Modern -- Early Greece -- Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Texts Discussed -- EULA.