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It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. 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 the 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 durée 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.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introductory reflections: Making sense of ancient sight
MICHAEL SQUIRE
1. Sight and the Presocratics: Approaches to visual perception in early Greek philosophy
KELLI RUDOLPH
2. Sight and the philosophy of vision in Classical Greece: Democritus, Plato and Aristotle
ANDREA NIGHTINGALE
3. Sight and the perspectives of mathematics: The limits of ancient optics
REVIEL NETZ & MICHAEL SQUIRE
4. Sight and reflexivity: Theorizing vision in Greek vase-painting
JONAS GRETHLEIN
5. Sight and painting: Optical theory and pictorial poetics in Classical Greek art
JEREMY TANNER
6. Sight and light: Reified gazes and looking artefacts in the Greek cultural imagination
RUTH BIELFELDT
7. Sight and death: Seeing the dead through ancient eyes
SUSANNE TURNER
8. Sight and the gods: On the desire to see naked nymphs
VERITY PLATT
9. Sight and memory: The visual art of Roman mnemonics
JAŚ ELSNER & MICHAEL SQUIRE
10. Sight and insight: Theorizing vision, emotion and imagination in ancient rhetoric
RUTH WEBB
11. Sight and Christianity: Early Christian attitudes to seeing
JANE HEATH
12. Sight and blindness: The mask of Thamyris
LYNDSAY COO
13. Sight in retrospective: The afterlife of ancient optics
A. MARK SMITH
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