Edinburgh University Press
Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
About this book
Combining New Materialist and cognitive methodologies, Amy Lather shows the different ways in which matter interacted with mind in ancient Greek thought.
Her readings centre on the concept of poikilia, a richly multivalent term in Greek aesthetics that is used to characterise artefacts as well as mental activity. By delineating patterns of interaction between living and inorganic beings through the lens of this aesthetic concept, Lather maps a body of canonical texts onto the new critical terrains comprised by the new materialisms and cognitive humanities and reveals the points of intersection between cognitive processes and the material entities produced by them.
The result is an innovative contribution to both Classics and New Materialism studies, uncovering the intimate and reciprocal interaction between minds and matter as central to ancient Greek aesthetic experience.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Note on the Text
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Introduction
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1. A Beautiful Mind: Patterns of Thought and the Decoration of Textiles
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2. Brazen Charm: The Vitality of Archaic Armour
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3. Mind Tools: Art, Artifice and Animation
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4. The Protean Shape of Lyric Poikilia
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5. Metis and the Mechanics of the Mind
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6. The Materiality of Feminine Guile
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Conclusions
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Bibliography
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Index Locorum
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Subject index
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