Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
Biographic Data
| ID | 9192880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anastasia-Erasmia |
| FAMILY NAME | Peponi |
| SIGNATURE | PEPONI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lyric Vision
This chapter serves as an introduction to the volume as well as to key issues, aesthetic and political, pertaining to the role of lyric poetry in the development of visual sensibilities and practices in Greek cultures. It claims that the rich area of lyric production (understood here inclusively as the totality of melic, elegiac and iambic genres) reflected, shaped, and interacted with dominant modalities of viewing in Greek cultures, creating at…
Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws
This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, the Laws. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, the Laws represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and underexplored dialogue. Abounding in unique and valuable references to dance and music, customs and norms, the Laws seems to suggest a comprehensive model of culture for the entir…
Eros (I)
One of the dividing lines Kant drew between the “beautiful” and the “agreeable” was the border between the absence and the presence of desire for an object apprehended aesthetically. Several modern (and modernist) approaches to aesthetic response seem to question such convictions. Starting with Swann’s falling in love with a sonata in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the chapter proceeds to a discussion of the way mousikê is represented as elicit…
Weeping
The pleasure and the pain of the listener are intensely negotiated in the Odyssey, until reconciled in the figure of Odysseus. For a modern reader such issues bring up an instrumental concept discussed by Edward Bullough in the early twentieth century, that of psychical distance. This chapter suggests that contrary to current assumptions, in the Odyssey aesthetic pleasure is steadily sought out in spite of a listener’s lack of psychical distance.…
Eros (II)
This chapter continues the discussion about the relationship between aesthetics and desire, focusing exclusively on Plato’s Republic. Starting with the tenth book of the Republic, the chapter moves gradually backward, its final destination being a section of the third book that so far remains underexplored. Socrates’s explicit and implicit references to the encounter with poetry as being analogous to an affair with a hetaira are explored within a…
Fusion
Kêlêsisand thelxis, conveying slightly different nuances of intense auditory fascination and enchantment, are often discussed in archaic and classical texts in relation to the Sirens’ song. A re-reading of the Odyssean episode alongside passages from choral poetry illuminates the distinctive position of the Sirens’ listener, an intermediate state between pure attendance and full participation in performance. The chapter finally argues that, in ar…
Tranquility
Starting with James Joyce’s discussion of aesthetic pleasure as a distinct type of pleasure associated with an attitude he names “luminous silent stasis” (a phrase that picks up on and transforms Thomas Aquinas’s approaches to beauty), the chapter discusses various ways in which Greek thought represented, evaluated, and visualized modes of aesthetic experience akin to restful contemplation and tranquility. Xenophon, Plato, Greek vase paintings, a…
Concepts and Terms
Though absent from the Greek language as a term, the notion of the aesthetic is embedded in archaic and classical thought and encountered in different but equally complex modes of thinking in both poetic and philosophical texts. Early modern approaches to the aesthetic were associated to a considerable extent with a struggle over the definition of the so-called fine arts, emphasizing their exclusiveness, an attitude that encouraged similar approa…
Coda
This short, concluding chapter sheds light on the differences between modern and ancient Greek aesthetics regarding, in particular, the conceptualization of aesthetic response. According to the author, these differences point the way for contemporary thought to further explore and redefine the aesthetic.
Frontiers of Pleasure
This book calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues about Greek conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. The analysis centers on a dominant aspect of beauty—the aural—associated with a highly influential sector of culture that comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the “activity of the Muses” named …
Sparta's Prima Ballerina
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Mixed Pleasures, Blended Discourses
In Plato's Philebus the last section of the discussion on the falseness of pleasure is dedicated to those pleasures intrinsically mixed with pain. This paper focuses specifically on bodily mixed pleasures, an analysis that extends from 44d to 47c, while its focal point is 46-47c. By adopting the anti-hedonists' methodology, Socrates cunningly transforms his entire analysis of bodily mixed pleasures into a discourse on human disease, in which medi…
Frontiers of Pleasure
This book calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues about Greek conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. The analysis centers on a dominant aspect of beauty—the aural—associated with a highly influential sector of culture that comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the “activity of the Muses” named …
Sparta's Prima Ballerina
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mixed Pleasures, Blended Discourses
In Plato's Philebus the last section of the discussion on the falseness of pleasure is dedicated to those pleasures intrinsically mixed with pain. This paper focuses specifically on bodily mixed pleasures, an analysis that extends from 44d to 47c, while its focal point is 46-47c. By adopting the anti-hedonists' methodology, Socrates cunningly transforms his entire analysis of bodily mixed pleasures into a discourse on human disease, in which medi…
Sparta's Prima Ballerina
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Eros (I)
One of the dividing lines Kant drew between the “beautiful” and the “agreeable” was the border between the absence and the presence of desire for an object apprehended aesthetically. Several modern (and modernist) approaches to aesthetic response seem to question such convictions. Starting with Swann’s falling in love with a sonata in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the chapter proceeds to a discussion of the way mousikê is represented as elicit…
Weeping
The pleasure and the pain of the listener are intensely negotiated in the Odyssey, until reconciled in the figure of Odysseus. For a modern reader such issues bring up an instrumental concept discussed by Edward Bullough in the early twentieth century, that of psychical distance. This chapter suggests that contrary to current assumptions, in the Odyssey aesthetic pleasure is steadily sought out in spite of a listener’s lack of psychical distance.…
Eros (II)
This chapter continues the discussion about the relationship between aesthetics and desire, focusing exclusively on Plato’s Republic. Starting with the tenth book of the Republic, the chapter moves gradually backward, its final destination being a section of the third book that so far remains underexplored. Socrates’s explicit and implicit references to the encounter with poetry as being analogous to an affair with a hetaira are explored within a…
Fusion
Kêlêsisand thelxis, conveying slightly different nuances of intense auditory fascination and enchantment, are often discussed in archaic and classical texts in relation to the Sirens’ song. A re-reading of the Odyssean episode alongside passages from choral poetry illuminates the distinctive position of the Sirens’ listener, an intermediate state between pure attendance and full participation in performance. The chapter finally argues that, in ar…
Tranquility
Starting with James Joyce’s discussion of aesthetic pleasure as a distinct type of pleasure associated with an attitude he names “luminous silent stasis” (a phrase that picks up on and transforms Thomas Aquinas’s approaches to beauty), the chapter discusses various ways in which Greek thought represented, evaluated, and visualized modes of aesthetic experience akin to restful contemplation and tranquility. Xenophon, Plato, Greek vase paintings, a…
Concepts and Terms
Though absent from the Greek language as a term, the notion of the aesthetic is embedded in archaic and classical thought and encountered in different but equally complex modes of thinking in both poetic and philosophical texts. Early modern approaches to the aesthetic were associated to a considerable extent with a struggle over the definition of the so-called fine arts, emphasizing their exclusiveness, an attitude that encouraged similar approa…
Coda
This short, concluding chapter sheds light on the differences between modern and ancient Greek aesthetics regarding, in particular, the conceptualization of aesthetic response. According to the author, these differences point the way for contemporary thought to further explore and redefine the aesthetic.
Frontiers of Pleasure
This book calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues about Greek conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. The analysis centers on a dominant aspect of beauty—the aural—associated with a highly influential sector of culture that comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the “activity of the Muses” named …
Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws
This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, the Laws. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, the Laws represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and underexplored dialogue. Abounding in unique and valuable references to dance and music, customs and norms, the Laws seems to suggest a comprehensive model of culture for the entir…
Lyric Vision
This chapter serves as an introduction to the volume as well as to key issues, aesthetic and political, pertaining to the role of lyric poetry in the development of visual sensibilities and practices in Greek cultures. It claims that the rich area of lyric production (understood here inclusively as the totality of melic, elegiac and iambic genres) reflected, shaped, and interacted with dominant modalities of viewing in Greek cultures, creating at…
Art (12 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Pleasure (6 works)