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Genius : the history of an idea
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ISBN: 0631157859 Year: 1989 Publisher: Oxford New York : Basil Blackwell,

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This book explores the history of the idea of genius from its origins in classical antiquity to its deconstruction in postmodernist criticism. Focusing mainly on the creative arts, the book examines certain key points in the development of the idea, and also addresses the problem of what constitutes genius in specific subject areas. Experts in different fields have contributed chapters on literature, art, music, mathematics, philosophy and psychiatry to produce a volume which illuminates an abiding obsession throughout the history of European culture.The contributors to this volume show how the ancient image of the inspired poet and the Renaissance conception of the divino artista both anticipate later notions of genius, developed into the 18th century around the central figures of Homer, Shakespeare and Goethe. Romantic definitions of genius are analysed, as are the implications of Nietzsche's pronouncements on 'human greatness'. The historic conjunction of genius and madness is explored from the early belief in divine possession through the Renaissance notion of melancholy to the age of psychoanalysis.

Music and the muses : the culture of Mousike in the classical Athenian city
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ISBN: 0199242399 0191714070 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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More wide-ranging in its implications than the English 'music', mousike lay at the heart of Greek culture, and was often indeed synonymous with culture. These essays analyse the theory and practice of musical performance in a variety of social contexts demonstrating the centrality of mousike.


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A companion to ancient aesthetics
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ISBN: 9781444337648 1444337645 1119010195 1119009774 1119063914 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell,

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The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media-oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges

Plato on poetry : Ion; Republic 376e-398b9; Republic 595-608b10
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ISBN: 0521341825 0521349818 9780521349819 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Aspects of the epic
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ISBN: 0333307062 Year: 1985 Publisher: London Macmillan

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Imagination : a study in the history of ideas
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ISBN: 0415058074 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Routledge

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Imagination : a study in the history of ideas
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ISBN: 113493209X 1280165049 0203980816 9780203980811 9780415058070 0415058074 0415058074 9786610165049 6610165041 9781280165047 9781134932047 9781134932085 9781134932092 9780415862080 0415862086 Year: 1991 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context.


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Dossier : S'habiller, se déshabiller dans les mondes anciens
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ISBN: 9782713221682 2713221684 271322604X Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales,

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Dossier : L’individu, objet de tous les regards : telle est la perspective adoptée par ce dossier. Si le vêtement occupe une place centrale dans cette enquête, l’histoire des apparences ne s’y réduit pas. Traits physiques et de caractère, tenue extérieure et nudité étudiée, parures et coiffures, odeurs et attitudes, constituent un large ensemble de significations, celui du « vêtement total ». Moyens de catégorisation et d’évaluation morale, modes d’intervention délibérée dans le champ des interactions sociales, les manières de s’habiller et de se déshabiller témoignent d’un contrôle visuel quasi permanent exercé sur les corps depuis les mondes archaïques grec et étrusque jusqu’à la Rome impériale. Varia : Une série d’articles suit ce dossier thématique et aborde des sujets très variés : parmi d’autres, le mythe des Lemniennes, la question du statut des Muses, celle de la discorde (éris) dans les récits de fondation, l’implication du stratège athénien Timothée dans une guerre civile à Zakinthos au ive siècle, la représentation divine en Nabatène, la procédure de la description des œuvres d’art – ekphrasis – chez Philostrate, ou encore, dans une perspective méthodologique et historiographique, la pratique de la méthode comparative par les historiens anthropologues de la Grèce ancienne.

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