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The English word “imagination” is the standard translation of the Greek phantasia. This chapter examines two contrasting ways in which the term phantasia is used in ancient aesthetics. Phantasia in the sense of “visualization” is common in a variety of texts discussing poetry, oratory, historiography, and painting from the first century AD onward, including Longinus, On Sublimity, although the origins...
This chapter examines conceptions of the unity of literary texts and other artistic products in ancient philosophical aesthetics. It begins with the text as an appropriately organized whole in Plato's Phaedrus, and assesses the Neoplatonist theory that this criterion requires a single “target” (skopos). The discussion of unity in tragedy and epic in Aristotle's Poetics is interpreted in the light...
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