ArticleAuthors: Aiste Celkyte (2017)
‘Beautiful things are hard’ says Socrates at the end of Plato’s Hippias Major, but A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics, the first publication of its kind, is certainly not an attempt to streamline and generalize the large variety and complexity of ancient theories, reflections and arguments. Instead, it is an impressively wide-ranging col-lection of chapters on ancient Greek and Roman thought on art, and to a somewhat lesser extent, beauty... 
