Greek Aesthetics

"Greek Aesthetics: Philosophy of Beauty and Art" is a comprehensive work that deeply examines the understanding of beauty and art by ancient Greek philosophers. The book, which addresses the theories of beauty by Aristotle, Plato, and Plotinus, provides a historical introduction to aesthetics. The book seeks answers to questions such as "What is beauty?", "What does the identity of beauty and good mean in Ancient Greece?", "What is the difference between 'beauty in itself' and 'individual beauties' in Plato?", "What does art mean as imitation and creation?", "How is the relationship between art and the state positioned in Aristotle's and Plato's poetics?", "What is beauty in the context of Plotinus' theory of the soul?", "Is that which lacks proportion and symmetry ugly, or that which has not partaken in the divine intellect?" It also includes many allusions to the aesthetic understanding of Heraclitus, the Pythagoreans, and Xenophon, as well as selections from fundamental texts.