Books by Jonas (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg Grethlein

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature, of representation. It argues that the key concept of apate (meaning both 'deception' and 'aesthetic illusion') was used by writers from the Classical to the Imperial periods to entwine aesthetics with ethics.

This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific nature of aesthetic experience.

This new approach to the temporal dynamic of historiography will appeal to classicists, ancient historians and scholars interested in the theory of history. Its application to major Greek and Roman historians yields a new and often surprising take on individual authors and the history of ancient historiography in general.

Investigates the field of memory in the literature of the fifth century BCE. Covers poetry and oratory as well as the works of the first Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides, and offers a fresh assessment of the rise of Greek historiography.