The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception. The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus, Hardback/***

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature, of representation. It argues that the key concept of apate (meaning both 'deception' and 'aesthetic illusion') was used by writers from the Classical to the Imperial periods to entwine aesthetics with ethics. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Jonas (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany) Grethlein Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises Number of pages: 332 Publication date: 2021 Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 27 Cover type: Hardback