Abstract
This chapter proposes to treat notions of amousia —itself hard to translate by any single term, but embracing various failures and/or refusals to cultivate the values of ‘music’ and the Muses—as a clue to certain Greek ways of thinking which have a special bearing on the problems of aesthetics. It selects evidence from Euripidean and Aristophanic theater to explore some of the ways in which problems of amousia form points of interference within the workings of Athenian/Greek cultural values and thereby draw attention to part of what is entailed by those values. Finally, the chapter turns attention to Plato, whose dialogues, the author suggests, do not represent a clean break with older ideas of mousike and amousia but instead reappraise and partly redefine them for the purposes of a new philosophical ideal. Keywords:aesthetics; amousia ; Aristophanes; Muses; Plato
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