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How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the ‘value’ of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the ‘life without the Muses’ to ‘the Sublime’, and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics. Aesthetic value in classical antiquity should be of interest to classicists, cultural and art historians, and philosophers.

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Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990) in Classics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is Professor of Greek at Leiden University. Apart from the Penn-Leiden volumes, her most recent book is (with Rita Copeland), Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric. Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 350-1475 (2009). Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. (1983) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Apart from the Penn-Leiden volumes, his most recent book is Making Mockery. The Poetics of Ancient Satire (2007). Contributors: Myrthe Bartels, Elsa Bouchard, Curtis Dozier, Joseph Farrell, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Caitlin Gillespie, Stephen Halliwell, Craig Hardiman, Elizabeth Jones, Jeremy McInerney, Carrie Mowbray, Alexandra Pappas, Irene Peirano, James Porter, Bettina Reitz and Eleonora Rocconi.

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