Historiography And Mythography In The Aristotelian Mirabilia

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Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia

Author : Stefan Schorn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000986101
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia written by Stefan Schorn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him. The central section of the Mirabilia, namely §§ 78–151, for the most part deals with historiographical material, with many of its entries having some relationship to ancient Greek historians of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The chapters in this volume discuss various aspects of this portion of the text, including textual issues involving toponyms; possible structural principles behind the organization of this section; the passages on Theopompus and Timaeus; mythography; the philosopher Heracleides of Pontos; Homeric exegesis; and the interrelationship between pseudo-Plutarch’s On Rivers, a section of the historian Stobaeus’ Geography, and the Mirabilia. Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of this text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.

The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science

Author : Arnaud Zucker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003850227
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science written by Arnaud Zucker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text; the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle’s Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus’ scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular.

Writing Myth

Author : Stephen Trzaskoma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042929111
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Writing Myth written by Stephen Trzaskoma and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings innovative perspectives to the study of ancient mythography, that is, the writings of the Greeks and Romans about their own mythical traditions. It treats a range of sources from the beginnings of myth criticism in the 5th century BCE to the end of antiquity in the 5th century CE, highlighting mythography's centrality to ancient views of myth and moving beyond seeing mythographic texts as valuable primarily for the preservation of details about traditional stories. Important individual mythographers are treated (e.g., Ps.-Apollodorus and Hyginus), but throughout there is an emphasis on the connections of mythography with more literary genres, such as epic, and more prestigious prose genres, such as historiography and geography. This makes the volume of interest for those who work on myth in Greek and Roman society, but also for anyone working on ancient intellectual history more broadly, including those who study rhetoric, education, literary composition, art and ancient scholarly traditions.

Myth as Source of Knowledge in Early Western Thought

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783447193924
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (939 download)

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A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107167698
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture written by Richard Stoneman and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443355
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Cosmic Order and Divine Power

Author : Johan C. Thom
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161528095
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Order and Divine Power written by Johan C. Thom and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World

Author : Paul Turquand Keyser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199734143
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World written by Paul Turquand Keyser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, 'The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World' offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. 0The Handbook comprises five sections, each with a specific focus on ancient science and medicine. The Handbook provides through each of its approximately four dozen essays, a synthesis and synopsis of the concepts and models of the various ancient natural sciences, covering the early Greek era through the fall of the Roman Republic, including essays that explore topics such as music theory, ancient philosophers, astrology, and alchemy.

Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481477
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture written by Reviel Netz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

The Phantom Image

Author : Patrick R. Crowley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022664829X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom Image written by Patrick R. Crowley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.

Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750 written by Lorraine Daston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.

The Enigmatic Reality of Time

Author : Michael Wagner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047443608
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Enigmatic Reality of Time written by Michael Wagner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates interdsciplinary work with philosophical analyses to explain facets of the perennial question of time's nature and existence, both in its contemporary and its original classical contexts, and it explains the two most influential investigations of the topic in classical Western thought: Aristotle's and Plotinus'.

Lucian's Dialogi Marini

Author : Adam Nicholas Bartley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781443809603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Lucian's Dialogi Marini written by Adam Nicholas Bartley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian, born in approximately 125 AD, was a prolific satirical author from the city of Samosata in the province of Syria, now Samsat in Turkey. He was, apparently, not a native speaker of Greek, and yet went on to become an instructor in rhetoric, with posts in Greece, Gaul and Rome, before finally becoming an administrator in Egypt during the reign of the Emperor Commodus and passing away some time after 180 AD. He composed more than seventy works, including many satirical dialogues, speeches and even a short novel. The Dialogues of the Sea Gods are a collection of brief dialogues between famous figures in Greek myth that all have something to do with the sea, including Poseidon, Triton, the Nereids, the Winds and even the Cyclops. While they are cleverly written and amusing in their own right, these fifteen dialogues also have much to show us about the works of mythology that were popular in the second century AD, contemporary views on the many inconsistencies in Greek myth and those parts of the world where, despite being outside what we would consider â ~Greeceâ (TM) in modern terms, Greek culture flourished under Roman rule. This volume considers the developments of literary Greek language, the relationship between Greek Drama, Epic and Bucolic poetry in Lucianâ (TM)s time, and the discussions of myth by philosophical and moralistic writers that Lucian both uses to critique myths and parodies in their own right. This has much to tell us about the works that survived into Lucianâ (TM)s time from the Classical period, including many that we now know only from fragmentary material, and their relative popularity. There is also detailed examination of the way that the interaction between Greek and non-Greek culture has influenced Lucianâ (TM)s depiction of â ~Greekâ (TM) myths.

The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today

Author : John Courtney Murray
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300001716
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today written by John Courtney Murray and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an urbane and persuasive tract for our time, the distinguished Catholic theologian combines a comprehensive metaphysics with a sensitivity to contemporary existentialist thought. Father Murray traces the “problem of God” from its origins in the Old Testament, through its development in the Christian Fathers and the definitive statement by Aquinas, to its denial by modern materialism. Students and nonspecialist intellectuals may both benefit by the book, which illuminates the problem of development of doctrine that is now, even more than in the days of Newman, a fundamental issue between Roman Catholic and Protestant, theologians and nonspecialst intellectuals alike will find the subject of vital interest. As a challenge to the ecumenical dialogue, the question is raised whether, in the course of its development through different phases, the problem of God has come back to its original position. Father Murray is Ordinary professor of theology at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Maryland. St. Thomas More Lectures, 1. "A gem of a book—lucid, illuminating, brilliantly written. A fine contribution to the current Catholic theological renaissance."—Paul Weiss.

Historical Abstracts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 17-18 cover 1775-1914.

Universal Empire

Author : Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560956
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Universal Empire written by Peter Fibiger Bang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations and historical sociology. The notion of universal, imperial rule is presented as an elusive and much coveted prize among monarchs in history, around which developed forms of kingship and political culture. Different facets of the phenomenon are explored under three, broadly conceived, headings: symbolism, ceremony and diplomatic relations; universal or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, finally, the inclination to present universal imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110743534X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.