This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

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 ph

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics and its entanglement with ethics, with ongoing significance for current debates.

The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic e

This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in the