How Long to Read Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato

How Long Does it Take to Read Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 34 minutes to read Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato by Zacharoula Petraki

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Plato’s Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge. The maker bestows order on sensible things and imitates the world of the intellect by using the Forms as models. While the creation-myth of the Timaeus seems unparalleled, this book argues that it is not the first of Plato’s dialogues to use artistic language to articulate the relationship of the objects of the material world to the world of the intellect. The book adopts an interpretative angle that is sensitive to the visual and art-historical developments of Classical Athens to argue that sculpture, revolutionized by the advent of the lost-wax technique for the production of bronze statues, lies at the heart of Plato’s conception of the relation of the human soul and body to the Forms. It shows that, despite the severe criticism of mimēsis in the Republic, Plato’s use of artistic language rests on a positive model of mimēsis. Plato was in fact engaged in a constructive dialogue with material culture and he found in the technical processes and the cultural semantics of sculpture and of the art of weaving a valuable way to conceptualise and communicate complex ideas about humans’ relation to the Forms.

How long is Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato?

Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato by Zacharoula Petraki is 439 pages long, and a total of 113,701 words.

This makes it 148% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 21 minutes to read Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato aloud.

What Reading Level is Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato?

Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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