scholarly journals Ἀμήχανόν τι κάλλος. Re-evaluating the Concept of Beauty in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika

Nova Tellus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-129
Author(s):  
Markus Hafner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Persuasive Effect ◽  
Divine Beauty

Of the extant ancient Greek novels, Heliodorus’ Aithiopika is by far the most ‘sophisticated’. One of its topics is the virtually irresistible, and almost ‘divine’, beauty of both protagonists, Theagenes and Charicleia. Whereas earlier scholarship brought Heliodorean beauty into line with Platonic concepts and highlighted its ethical value or even metaphysical character, this article tries to throw into relief another aspect of Heliodorean κάλλος, emphasising a link between the Aithiopika and rhetorical exercises based on beauty. Thus, κάλλος makes explicit the persuasive effect of the text itself. By means of Heliodorus’ art of description, the quality of beauty also bears meta-literary implications. The Aithiopika, consequently, advertise in a self-referential way their own rhetorical attraction and persuasiveness.

What Can Complex Abdominal Wall Hernia Surgeons Learn About Quality of Life From Ancient Greek Philosophers?

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Smith ◽  
Miriam Isaac ◽  
Thomas Elanjithara ◽  
Praminthra Chitsabesan ◽  
Srinivas Chintapatla
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Abdominal Wall ◽  
Abdominal Wall Hernia ◽  
Ancient Greek

Conclusions

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-250
Author(s):  
Lucy C. M. M. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
Relevant Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
The Way

As well as bringing together all the relevant evidence for the quality and activity of the chorus of drama in the fourth century, this monograph has raised certain key questions about the current understanding of the nature and development of Attic drama as a whole. First, it shows that the supposed ‘civic’ quality of the chorus of drama is, in fact, an association loaned, inappropriately, from the genre of circular, ‘dithyrambic’, choral performance. Being attentive to the cultural differences between these two genres should prompt a further re-evaluation of how to read dramatic choruses more generally. Second, the way in which key fourth-century authors such as Plato and Xenophon use the image of the chorus to discuss the concept of leadership has profoundly shaped ways of construing choreia in ancient Greek drama, and the ancient Mediterranean more generally. Armed with this knowledge, it is possible to retell the story and history of the chorus in drama.

Odysseus on the Niobid Krater

1989 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 191-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. McNiven
Keyword(s):  
Classical Period ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
New Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Art

The Niobid krater in Paris (Louvre G341) is not one of the masterpieces of Greek vase painting. The vase is not even one of the best works of the artist, who receives his name, the Niobid Painter, from the rare depiction of Apollo and Artemis killing the children of Niobe on the reverse. The vase is, however, one of the touchstones of the history of ancient Greek art. The Niobid krater has this distinction because it is the earliest contemporaneous witness to the new developments in mural painting in the Early Classical Period, developments best understood from the descriptions of the traveler Pausanias six centuries later. The actual quality of the Niobid krater is therefore secondary to its documentary value.Since the krater's discovery in 1881, most discussion has focused on the iconography of the scene on the obverse, showing a group of warriors with Athena (PLATE IIa). The ambiguity of the scene comes from the large number of figures and the lack of action or iconographical evidence to help in their identification. Of the 11 figures, only Herakles (figure 6 on PLATE IIb), with his club and lionskin and Athena (4) in her aegis and helmet are clearly identifiable.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION OF BEAUTY DISCOURSE IN LORD BYRON’S SELECTED POEMS REPRESENTASI WACANA KECANTIKAN DALAM PUISI LORD BYRON

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anisa Hikmah Suryandari
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Divine Beauty ◽  
Physical Beauty

This study discusses beauty discourse in the era of Romanticism. Beauty discourse was produced through Byron poems from 1813-1815. Byron was one of the leading figures in the Romantic movement who was influential at the time. We use three Byron poems as the main data for this study. These poems are She Walks in Beauty (1814), Sonnet to Genevra (1813), and Stanzas for Music (1815). The concept of beauty produced by the three poems above connects physical beauty and intellectual beauty with natural elements as one of the great themes of the Romanticism era. The concept of beauty at that time was closely related to the romantic society of England. Referring to this reason, Stuart Hall's representation theory and discursive approach by Michel Foucault are used as a tool to analyze the above problems. The results of this study indicate that the concept of beauty in the romantic era (1) emphasizes intellectual beauty or beyond the physical itself as a concept of beauty in that era. In addition, three concepts of beauty, physical beauty, intellectual beauty, and natural beauty will always lead to divine beauty, where all life comes from Him, and (2) The three poems make beauty an instrument to criticize the presence of the industrial revolution at that time which is considered to cause chaos in romantic life.

Reading Greek Literature

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Special Quality ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
Open Question

This chapter looks at Ancient Greek texts as a foil for Ancient Egyptian literature. Scholars who work on cultural products of premodern societies will always be faced with the question whether, by using modern terminology, they are unconsciously importing anachronistic and thus inappropriate concepts into their research. The word ‘literature’ implies literacy, but it is an open question whether the fundamental qualities of writing can reside in texts which have been produced and received as written and read texts. The chapter argues that the awareness of the special quality of literary texts can indeed be found in the earliest Greek texts. It compares the ways in which speaker and addressee are constructed in early oral poetry (such as lyrics and epic) and early written texts (such as epigrams) and argues that there is no clear-cut boundary between the two modes.

On Systematicity. How to Write (Ancient Greek) Science

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Asper
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Ancient Greek

Abstract:This article asks what it takes to make the treatment of a given topic and thus a scientific or scholarly text ‘systematic’. After some remarks upon systems theory, the paper illustrates systematicity, the quality of being systematic, by readings of the Hippocratic

scholarly journals The Concept of Beauty in the Theology of Martyrius-Sahdona (7th Century)

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-111
Author(s):  
Максим Судаков
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

В своих аскетических сочинениях известный восточно-сирийский писатель Мартирий-Сахдона много внимания уделяет теме обожения человека, в связи с которой он регулярно употребляет понятие «красота» (šuprā). Этим словом он обозначает как свойство Бога, так и свойство человека как образа Божьего. В последнем случае Мартирий понимает красоту как качество добродетелей и как свойство твари в её неповреждённом состоянии, сообщённое ей Богом. В статье выясняется значение понятия «красота» для антропологического и аскетического учения, выраженного Мартирием, а также предпринимается попытка установить место, которое занимают его мысли о красоте в контексте произведений сирийских и греческих авторов, некоторые из которых могли оказать на него влияние, а некоторые - бесспорно оказали. После анализа употребления данного понятия в различных сочинениях Мартирия становится очевидной систематичность и последовательность его мысли, выражаемой с помощью указанного термина. Сопоставление высказываний о красоте у Мартирия и у многих других авторов, в свою очередь, позволяет говорить, что учение Мартирия о красоте вполне соответствует мнениям этих авторов, среди которых бóльшая часть - православные святые отцы. In his ascetic writings a famous East Syriac writer Martyrius-Sahdona pays much attention to the theme of deification of man, due to what he regularly uses the beauty (šuprā) consept. He designates by this word the property of God as well as the property of man, as image of God. In the last case Martyrius understands the beauty as the quality of virtues and as the attribute of the creature in its undamaged state, which is given to it by God. The article attempts to clarify the significance of the concept beauty for the anthropological and ascetic teaching, expressed by Martyrius. Also there is undertaken an attempt to definite a place, which his ideas about the beauty occupy in the context of the works of the Syriac and Greek authors, some of which may have influence on him, and some - certainly have. After the analysis of the use of this concept in several writings of Martyrius systematic and consistent character of his thought, expressed by this, becomes obvious. In its turn the comparison of assertions about the beauty by Martyrius and by a lot of other authors allows to say, that the teaching of Martyrius about the beauty is consistent with the opinions of these authors, most of which are the Orhodox Holy Fathers.

scholarly journals La ciudad y la estética: siete maneras de pensar la belleza = City and aesthetics: seven ways to think beauty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara González Moratiel
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

Conscientes de la complejidad que supone adentrase en juicios sobre la calidad del paisaje urbano especialmente para una sociedad, como la actual, altamente desvinculada de su medio habitado, el trabajo de tesis doctoral precisó una revisión teórica sobre el papel heredado de la belleza en la formación histórica de las ciudades europeas. Dicho trabajo de investigación es el que aquí se presenta. En él se tratan las cuestiones de definición del concepto de belleza así como sus mutaciones en el plano teórico en paralelo al valor de “lo bello” en la ciudad desde finales de la Edad Media hasta la época contemporánea. Debido al carácter diverso de la belleza, las reflexiones se estructuran en un “espacio de pensamiento” entorno a siete categorías estéticas consideradas por Tatarkiewicz como variedades de belleza. Estas son: la aptitud, el ornamento, la atracción, la gracia, la sutileza, la sublimidad y el concepto de belleza dual. Mediante ejemplos históricos narrativos del espacio público (principalmente de plazas) según dichas categorías estéticas, se concluye que, ya sea desde su concepción amplia (sensu largo) o limitada (stricto sensu), la belleza ha ido acompañando a la formación histórica de las ciudades, al menos, en estos últimos ocho siglos.Abstract:Aware of the complexity involved in entering into judgments about the quality of the urban landscape especially for a society, such as the current one, highly disconnected from its inhabited environment, the doctoral thesis work required a theoretical review on the inherited role of beauty in training historic of European cities. This research work is the one presented here. It deals with the questions of definition of the concept of beauty as well as its mutations in the theoretical plane in parallel to the value of "the beautiful" in the city from the end of the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. Due to the diverse nature of beauty, the reflections are structured in a "space of thought" around seven aesthetic categories considered by Tatarkiewicz as varieties of beauty. These are: fitness, ornament, attraction, grace, subtlety, sublimity and the concept of dual beauty. Through historical narrative examples of public space (mainly squares) according to these aesthetic categories, it is concluded that, whether from its broad conception (long sensu) or limited (stricto sensu), beauty has been accompanying the historical formation of cities, at least, in these last eight centuries.

scholarly journals Updating the Spatial Figures of Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 226-241
Author(s):  
Barbara Coppetti
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Hidden Layer ◽  
Open Campus ◽  
Contemporary School

The educational institution represents the basis of civil society: any great empire or civilzation began to be considered when it developed a structured educational system capable to educate aware citizens participating in public life. Retracing the etymological origin of hte term school, the latter suggests a hidden component which should still be at the basis of the idea of contemporary school. The word comes from the Latin schola, which derives from the ancient Greek scholè that means to take care of free time. The scholè was the time in which one rested form the effort of daily life, to devote himself to study and reasoning. The proposal in this paper is that the first hidden layer of architectural education is to give back to the school its authentic meaning of scholè, place of the otium, where the love of knowledge lives. The Place on one side and the Educator on the other are the first components to update our universities: open campus, informal spaces, off-the-record paths + innovative teaching are the main tools to pursue a better quality of architectural education.

Ayurvedic perspective of Cosmetology

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr.Sumedh Wasnik ◽  
Tanuja Naik ◽  
Anita Ghodke ◽  
Vaibhav Sulakhe
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Toxic Materials ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Physically Attractive

Cosmetology deals with various aspect of beauty. Beauty is the quality of being physically attractive, the qualities in a person or a thing that give pleasure to the senses or the mind. It is the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. Beauty is the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, colour, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else. It pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. Beauty of person gives perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. According to Ayurveda, the concept of beauty includes physical, mental, social and spiritual elements. Ayurveda is the science of health care and healing, works on four levels body, Breath, mind and spirit. When these are in perfect harmony, a person radiates with inner and outer beauty. In fact, the concept of beauty and cosmetics is as old as mankind and civilization. Ama (toxic materials) inside our body make a person ugly and diseased and Sodhana i.e. Panchakarma (purification) is the best therapeutic intervention to eliminate body toxins. Being Ayurveda as a life science and tradition of India, soon India will be the global cosmetic industry’s capital because of advantages of Ayurveda and Ayurvedic medicines.

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