Fowler, Barbara Hughes: The Hellenistic Aesthetic

This book is primarily about the poetry of the Hellenistic period. Then it is about certain of the visual arts: sculpture, painting, mosaics, and jewelry. Barbara Hughes Fowler introduces us to 'The Hellenistic Aesthetic' by encouraging us to attend carefully to its "sparkle and music": "Hellenistic poetry brought to Western literature many of the qualities which we think of as modern: an interest in animals (especially pets), babies, children, women, and grotesques; common or working people and the tools of their trades; landscapes; cities; the passions of romantic love and of sinning; pathos; burlesque. The literature parallels the subject matter of the visual arts, where we find fishermen, hunchbacks, dancing dwarfs, drunken old women, women who have died in childbirth, kitchen utensils, and the expression of emotion in the faces of creatures as well as people. XIX,213 Seiten mit 127 Abb., broschiert (Wisconsin Studies in Classics/The University of Wisconsin Press 1989) textsauber, mit Gebrauchsspuren, Namenseintrag mit Kugelschreiber auf Vorsatz/clean text pages, traces of use, owner's signature on front endpaper

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