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Cosmos of the Ancients

Author : Stefan Stenudd
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517250911
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos of the Ancients written by Stefan Stenudd and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophers of Ancient Greece lived in a time when the gods were worshipped and the myths about them very much alive. They were generally regarded as accurate and there was no scientific evidence at hand to dismiss them. So, were they believed? This book explores to what extent the Greeks were able to question their own mythology. This is done by examining the cosmology of their philosophers and what roles they allowed therein for the gods - as much as possible according to their own words. To the philosophers, the quest to understand the world was neither made redundant by the mythology nor completely independent of it. If they were able to express doubts regarding the gods as well as the myths about them, and many of them certainly were, then their contemporaries must have been able to grasp the same. The Greeks were devoted to their mythology, but not all of them blindly so. Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, who specializes on studies of the patterns of thought in creation myths.

Cosmos in the Ancient World

Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423647
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos in the Ancient World written by Phillip Sidney Horky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come

Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300090888
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come written by Norman Cohn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C., the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from that static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state--"cosmos without chaos." The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them forever, and so bring an absolutely good world into being. Cohn reveals how this vision of the future was taken over by certain Jewish groups, notably the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences. Deeply informed yet highly readable, this magisterial book illumines a major turning-point in the history of human consciousness. It will be mandatory reading for all who appreciated The Pursuit of the Millennium.

The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience

Author : Efrosyni Boutsikas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848817X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience written by Efrosyni Boutsikas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.

A Portable Cosmos

Author : Alexander Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019973934X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book A Portable Cosmos written by Alexander Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought"--

The Keys to the Universe

Author : Diana Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1844093794
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Keys to the Universe written by Diana Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the preparation for 2012—when the universe will present vast changes for humanity—this examination communicates the knowledge of wise ancients. There are 48 keys and two cosmic keys that open up the various energies of the universe. Along with the accompanying CD, the information in this book will enable readers to expand their consciousness by using these keys to unlock the secrets of other realms, such as the animal and natural kingdoms, the elementals, different archangels and other angelic beings, cosmic masters, and wisdom centers. An exploration of spiritual laws, this is a fascinating and important look at energies that manifest as sound resonances and what humanity can do to access them.

The Earliest Cosmologies

Author : William Fairfield Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earliest Cosmologies written by William Fairfield Warren and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Genesis of the Cosmos

Author : Paul A. LaViolette
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9781591430346
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Genesis of the Cosmos written by Paul A. LaViolette and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul LaViolette reveals astonishing parallels between cutting edge scientific thought and early creation myths, and how these myths encode a theory of cosmology in which matter is continually growing from seeds of order that emerge spontaneously from chaos. Exposing the contradictions of the Big Bang theory, LaViolette leads us beyond the restrictive metaphors of modern science and into a new science for the 21st century.

Early Man and the Cosmos

Author : Evan Hadingham
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806119199
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Early Man and the Cosmos written by Evan Hadingham and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of ancient astronomy looks at the myths and beliefs about the heavens that influenced everyday life in these primitive cultures

Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology

Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441981160
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology written by Dirk L. Couprie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells the story. In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial vault onto which the celestial bodies are attached. One of the subjects treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive chapter on archaic astronomical instruments. Part Two shows how Anaximander (610-547 B.C.) blew up this archaic world-picture and replaced it by a new one that is essentially still ours. He taught that the celestial bodies orbit at different distances and that the earth floats unsupported in space. This makes him the founding father of cosmology. Part Three discusses topics that completed the new picture described by Anaximander. Special attention is paid to the confrontation between Anaxagoras and Aristotle on the question whether the earth is flat or spherical, and on the battle between Aristotle and Heraclides Ponticus on the question whether the universe is finite or infinite.

The Biblical Cosmos

Author : Robin A. Parry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625648103
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Biblical Cosmos written by Robin A. Parry and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Bible. When we read Scripture we often imagine that the world inhabited by the Bible's characters was much the same as our own. We would be wrong. The biblical world is an ancient world with a flat earth that stands at the center of the cosmos, and with a vast ocean in the sky, chaos dragons, mystical mountains, demonic deserts, an underground zone for the dead, stars that are sentient beings, and, if you travel upwards and through the doors in the solid dome of the sky, God's heaven--the heart of the universe. This book takes readers on a guided tour of the biblical cosmos with the goal of opening up the Bible in its ancient world. It then goes further and seeks to show how this very ancient biblical way of seeing the world is still revelatory and can speak God's word afresh into our own modern worlds.

Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece

Author : Patricia F. O'Grady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351918400
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece written by Patricia F. O'Grady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition. Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece brings the thoughts and lives of the pioneers of Western philosophy down from their sometimes remote heights and introduces them to a modern audience. Comprising seventy essays, written by internationally distinguished scholars in a lively and accessible style, this book presents the values, ideas, wisdom and arguments of the most significant thinkers from the world of ancient Greece. Commencing with Thales of Miletus and continuing to the end of the Ancient Period of philosophy by way of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Epictetus this book explores the major contributions of each philosopher as well as looking at archaeological and historical sites where they lived, worked and thought. This book is an outstanding introduction to the world of the philosophers of Ancient Greece.

On the Heavens

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986772901
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book On the Heavens written by Aristotle and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Heavens Aristotle - On the Heavens is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world. This work is significant as one of the defining pillars of the Aristotelian worldview, a school of philosophy that dominated intellectual thinking for almost two millennia. Similarly, this work and others by Aristotle were important seminal works by which much of scholasticism was derived.

Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology

Author : John H. Walton
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066548
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology written by John H. Walton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Near Eastern mode of thought is not at all intuitive to us moderns, but our understanding of ancient perspectives can only approach accuracy when we begin to penetrate ancient texts on their own terms rather than imposing our own world view. In this task, we are aided by the ever-growing corpus of literature that is being recovered and analyzed. After an introduction that presents some of the history of comparative studies and how it has been applied to the study of ancient texts in general and cosmology in particular, Walton focuses in the first half of this book on the ancient Near Eastern texts that inform our understanding about ancient ways of thinking about cosmology. Of primary interest are the texts that can help us discern the parameters of ancient perspectives on cosmic ontology—that is, how the writers perceived origins. Texts from across the ancient Near East are presented, including primarily Egyptian, Sumerian, and Akkadian texts, but occasionally also Ugaritic and Hittite, as appropriate. Walton’s intention, first of all, is to understand the texts but also to demonstrate that a functional ontology pervaded the cognitive environment of the ancient Near East. This functional ontology involves more than just the idea that ordering the cosmos was the focus of the cosmological texts. He posits that, in the ancient world, bringing about order and functionality was the very essence of creative activity. He also pays close attention to the ancient ideology of temples to show the close connection between temples and the functioning cosmos. The second half of the book is devoted to a fresh analysis of Genesis 1:1–2:4. Walton offers studies of significant Hebrew terms and seeks to show that the Israelite texts evidence a functional ontology and a cosmology that is constructed with temple ideology in mind, as in the rest of the ancient Near East. He contends that Genesis 1 never was an account of material origins but that, as in the rest of the ancient world, the focus of “creation texts” was to order the cosmos by initiating functions for the components of the cosmos. He further contends that the cosmology of Genesis 1 is founded on the premise that the cosmos should be understood in temple terms. All of this is intended to demonstrate that, when we read Genesis 1 as the ancient document it is, rather than trying to read it in light of our own world view, the text comes to life in ways that help recover the energy it had in its original context. At the same time, it provides a new perspective on Genesis 1 in relation to what have long been controversial issues. Far from being a borrowed text, Genesis 1 offers a unique theology, even while it speaks from the platform of its contemporaneous cognitive environment.

Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern

Author : Todd Breyfogle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226074245
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern written by Todd Breyfogle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's History, as well as his edition of Hobbes's Thucydides, David Grene has also had a major impact as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and modern. In this book, distinguished colleagues and former students explore the imaginative force of literature and history in articulating and illuminating the human condition. Ranging as widely as Grene's own interests in Greek and Roman antiquity, in drama, poetry, and the novel, in the art of translation, and in English history, these essays include discussions of the Odyssey and Ulysses, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarmé's English and T. S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. The introduction by Todd Breyfogle sketches for the first time the contours of Grene's own thought. Classicists, political theorists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and students of literature will all find much of value in the individual essays here and in the juxtaposition of their themes. Contributors: Saul Bellow, Seth Benardete, Todd Breyfogle, Amirthanayagam P. David, Wendy Doniger, Mary Douglas, Joseph N. Frank, Victor Gourevitch, Nicholas Grene, W. R. Johnson, Brendan Kennelly, Edwin McClellan, Françoise Meltzer, Stephanie Nelson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Ostwald, Robert B. Pippin, James Redfield, Sandra F. Siegel, Norma Thompson, and David Tracy

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

Author : Gabriel Pihas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000613410
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art written by Gabriel Pihas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power. Rome’s unique art history reveals a different side of the battle between ancients and moderns than that usually raised as an issue in the history of science and philosophy. The book traces the idea of a cosmos in pre-modern art in Rome, from the reception of Greek art in the Roman republic to the construction of the Pantheon, to early Christian art and architecture. It then sketches the disappearance of the presupposition of a cosmos in the High Renaissance and Baroque periods, as creativity became a new ideal. Through discussions of the art and architecture that defines proto-modern Rome— from Michelangelo’s terribilita’ in the Sistine Chapel, Caravaggio’s realism, Baroque illusionism, the infinities of Borromini’s architecture, to the Grand Tour’s representations of ruins— through an interpretation of such major issues and works, this book shows how modern art liberates us while leaving us feeling estranged from our grounding in the natural world. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architectural history, classics, philosophy, and early modern history and culture.

The Keys to the Universe

Author : Olivia Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844092796
Total Pages : 999 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Keys to the Universe written by Olivia Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 48 keys and two cosmic keys that open up the various energies of the universe. Along with the accompanying CD, the information in this book will enable readers to expand their consciousness by using these keys to unlock the secrets of other realms, such as the animal and natural kingdoms, the elementals, different archangels and other angelic beings, cosmic masters, and wisdom centers. An exploration of spiritual laws, this is a fascinating and important look at energies that manifest as sound resonances and what humanity can do to access them.