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The ancient aesthetics of deception : the ethics of enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus
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- Creator
- Jonas Grethlein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781009003513, 1009003518, 9781316518816, 9781009009126, 9781316518816
- OCLC
- on1261773154
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Gorgias and the justice of tragic apatē -- The circulation and significance of apatē in the Classical era in the Classical era -- The dramatic entanglement of aesthetic illusion with deceit in Sophocles' Electra -- Immersion and corruption in Plato's Republic -- The void of Hellenistic criticism -- The appeal and challenge of apatē in Imperial criticism: Plutarch's De audiendis poetis -- Lucian and the spell of philosophy -- How to read ekphrasis: Tabula Cebetis -- Christian polemics against idolatry: Clement of Alexandria's Protrepticus -- The aesthetics of deception reconfigured in Heliodorus' Ethiopica -- From deep-fake to psychotherapy: The aesthetics of deception today