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Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry (Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms) by Amy Lather is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry (Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms) about?
Combining New Materialist and cognitive methodologies, Amy Lather shows the different ways in which matter interacted with mind in ancient Greek thought. Her readings centre on the concept of poikilia, a richly multivalent term in Greek aesthetics that is used to characterise artefacts as well as mental activity. By delineating patterns of interaction between living and inorganic beings through the lens of this aesthetic concept, Lather maps a body of canonical texts onto the new critical terrai
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Amy Lather
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474462389
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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