Historiography And Mythography In The Aristotelian Mirabilia

Author : Stefan Schorn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000986101
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( 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.

Author : Arnaud Zucker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003850227
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( 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.

Author : Stephen Trzaskoma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042929111
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( 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.

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783447193924
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Myth as Source of Knowledge in Early Western Thought written by Harald Haarmann and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107167698
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443355
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought explores both explicit and hidden influences of Presocratic (6-4th c. BCE) early scientific concepts, such as nature, elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Hippocratic philosophy

Author : Sarah Davies
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004411909
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire written by Sarah Davies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire, Sarah Davies explores how the Roman Republic evolved, in ideological terms, into an “Empire without end.” This work stands out within imperialism studies by placing an emphasis on the role of international-level norms in shaping Roman imperium.

Author : Johan C. Thom
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161528095
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( 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.

Author : Paul Turquand Keyser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199734143
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( 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.

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481477
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( 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.