Epilogue

Krevans, Nita ^[1]
1. [1] University of Minnesota
  
  University of Minnesota
  
  City of Minneapolis, Estados Unidos
Localización: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, ISSN 0076-0730, Vol. 67, Nº. 2, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Hellenistic aesthetics: approaches and frameworks), págs. 86-92
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This review considers the tensions and oppositions in the foregoing discussions of Hellenistic literature, music, art, and philosophy. Commonly accepted notions of Hellenistic aesthetics, especially the emphasis on refinement associated with Callimachus, are challenged by celebrations of grandeur and even dissonance. By focusing on three key pairs of aesthetic opposites (‘large versus small’, ‘sight versus hearing’, and ‘harmony versus discord’), a more nuanced version of Hellenistic aesthetics emerges, embodied in the notion of technē.