The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aestheticspresents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditionalboundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancientsacross a range of media-oral, aural, visual, andliterary. 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.   Introduction Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray Part I: Art in Context   1. Greece: festivals, symposia and the performance ofpoetry Richard P. Martin 2. Figures of the poet in Greek epic and lyric Deborah Steiner 3. The Hellenistic world: the contexts and experience ofpoetry and art Graham Zanker 4. Rome: poetry, patronage and politics Thomas Habinek 5. Music and dance in Greece and Rome Eleonora Rocconi 6. Greek sculpture: the body, human and divine Rosemary Barrow 7.   Painting and private artcollections in Rome Agnès Rouveret 8. Architecture and Society Catherine Saliou Part II: Reflecting on Art 9. Literary criticism and the poet s autonomy Andrew Ford 10. Poetic inspiration Penelope Murray   11. The canons of style Jeffrey Walker 12. Sense and sensation in music Armand D'Angour 13. Dance and aesthetic perception Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi 14. Greek painting and the challenge of mimçsis Hariclia Brecoulaki 15. Ways of looking at Greek vases François Lissarrague 16. Displaying sculpture in Rome Thea Ravasi 17. Perceiving colors M. Michela Sassi 18. The beauties of architecture   Edmund Thomas 19. Stylistic landscapes Nancy Worman 20. Conceptualizing the (visual) arts Michael Squire Part III: Aesthetic issues 21. Mimesis Paul Woodruff 22. Fiction Stephen Halliwell 23. Imagination Anne Sheppard 24.  Beauty David Konstan 25. Unity, wholeness and proportion Malcolm Heath 26. The Sublime James I. Porter 27. Poikilia Adeline Grand-Clément 28. Wonder Christine Hunzinger 29. Tragic Emotions Christof Rapp 30. Laughter Ralph M. Rosen 31. Pleasure Pierre Destrée 32. Art and Morality Elizabeth Asmis 33. Art and Value Michael Silk