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Chapter 2 - The Circulation and Significance of Apatē in the Classical Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2021

Jonas Grethlein
Jonas Grethlein
Affiliation:
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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In the second chapter, I first present other texts from the Classical period that use apatē to signify the effect of theatre and other forms of representation. These texts give evidence for the wide circulation of apatē as an aesthetic term, perhaps – this is my tentative suggestion – as a result of a Gorgianic coinage. Then, I critically examine the tendency to view Gorgias fr. 23 DK merely as paving the way for Aristotle’s Poetics. This view is in danger of confounding aesthetic illusion with fictionality and ignores the salience of apatē’s enmeshing of aesthetics with ethics.

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aestheticsGreek literatureimmersionethicsancient criticismdeceptionsophistsAristotleAristophanes
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The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception
The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus
 , pp. 33 - 50
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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