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Sight and the ancient senses
Title
Sight and the ancient senses [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Squire.
ISBN
9781315719238 (electronic bk.)
1315719231 (electronic bk.)
9781844658657
1844658651
9781844658664
184465866X
Publication
London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 10, 2020
Series
The senses in antiquity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-305) and index.
Contents
Introductory reflections: Making sense of ancient sight / MICHAEL SQUIRE
Sight and the presocratics : approaches to visual perception in early Greek philosophy / KELLI RUDOLPH
Sight and the philosophy of vision in classical Greece : Democritus, Plato and Aristotle / ANDREA NIGHTINGALE
Sight and the perspectives of mathematics : the limits of ancient optics / REVIEL NETZ & MICHAEL SQUIRE
Sight and reflexivity : theorizing vision in Greek vase-painting / JONAS GRETHLEIN
Sight and painting : optical theory and pictorial poetics in classical Greek art / JEREMY TANNER
Sight and light : reified gazes and looking artefacts in the Greek cultural imagination / RUTH BIELFELDT
Sight and death : seeing the dead through ancient eyes / SUSANNE TURNER
Sight and the gods : on the desire to see naked nymphs / VERITY PLATT
Sight and memory : the visual art of Roman mnemonics / JAS ELSNER & MICHAEL SQUIRE
Sight and insight : theorizing vision, emotion and imagination in ancient rhetoric / RUTH WEBB
Sight and Christianity : early Christian attitudes to seeing / JANE HEATH
Sight and blindness : the mask of Thamyris / LYNDSAY COO
Sight in retrospective : the afterlife of ancient optics / A. MARK SMITH.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Vision, Ocular.
Sociological Factors.
Greek World.
Roman World.
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