Cosmography And The Idea Of Hyperborea In Ancient Greece
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Cosmography And The Idea Of Hyperborea In Ancient Greece
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Author : Renaud Gagné
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-22
Cosmography And The Idea Of Hyperborea In Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-22 with History categories.
Follows the extraordinary record of ancient Greek thought on Hyperborea as a case study of cosmography and anthropological philology.
Cosmography And The Idea Of Hyperborea In Ancient Greece
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Author : Renaud Gagné
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Cosmography And The Idea Of Hyperborea In Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Cosmography in literature categories.
Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly.
Cosmos In The Ancient World
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Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-04
Cosmos In The Ancient World written by Phillip Sidney Horky and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with Philosophy categories.
Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.
Ancestral Fault In Ancient Greece
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Author : Renaud Gagné
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Ancestral Fault In Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with History categories.
This book traces the trajectories of a key idea of ancient Greek culture through three thousand years of literature and reception.
The Cosmos In Ancient Greek Religious Experience
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Author : Efrosyni Boutsikas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
The Cosmos In Ancient Greek Religious Experience written by Efrosyni Boutsikas and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with History categories.
Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.
Revisiting Delphi
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Author : Julia Kindt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-26
Revisiting Delphi written by Julia Kindt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-26 with History categories.
An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.
All Things Ancient Greece
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Author : James W. Ermatinger
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-10-11
All Things Ancient Greece written by James W. Ermatinger and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with History categories.
As an invaluable resource for students and general audiences investigating Ancient Greek culture and history, this encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of the Mediterranean world and its influence on modern society. All Things Ancient Greece examines the history and cultural life of Ancient Greece until the death of Philip II of Macedon in 336 BCE. The encyclopedia shows how the various city-states developed from the Bronze Age to the end of the Classical Age, influencing the Greek world and beyond. The cultural achievements of the Greeks detailed in this two-volume set include literature, politics, medicine, religion, and the arts. This work has entries on the various city-states, regions, battles, culture, and ideas that helped shape the ancient Greek world and its societies. Each entry delves into detailed topics with suggested readings. Many entries include sidebars containing primary documents from ancient sources that explore ancillary ideas, biographies, and specific examples from literature and philosophy. Readers, both students of ancient history and a general audience, are encouraged to interact with the material either chronologically, thematically, or geographically.
Sublime Cosmos In Graeco Roman Literature And Its Reception
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Author : David Christenson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-07
Sublime Cosmos In Graeco Roman Literature And Its Reception written by David Christenson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-07 with Philosophy categories.
The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as ordering principles of human experience; divine birth and the manifold nature of divinity (both awesome and terrifying); contemplation of the sky and meteorological (ir)regularity; fears associated with overpowering natural and anthropogenic events; and the aspirations and limitations of human expression. In texts ranging from Homer to Keats, the volume's chapters apply diverse critical methods and approaches that engage with sublimity in various aesthetic, agential and metaphysical aspects. The ancient texts – epic, dramatic, historiographic and lyric – treated here are rooted in a remote world where, within a framework of (perceived) celestial order, literature, myth and science still communicated profoundly, a tradition that continued in literary receptions of these ancient works. This volume honours the intellectual legacy of Thomas D. Worthen, a scholar whose expertise and insights cut across multiple disciplines, and who influenced and inspired students and colleagues at the University of Arizona, USA, for over three decades. Beyond clarifying temporally and culturally distant contemplations of the human universe, these essays aim to inform the continuing sense of wonder and horror at the sublime heights and depths of our ever-changing cosmos.
The Ancient Sea
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Author : Hamish Williams
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
The Ancient Sea written by Hamish Williams and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with History categories.
In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was an essential domain for trade, cultural exchange, communication, exploration, and colonisation. In tandem with the lived reality of this maritime space, a parallel experience of the sea emerged in narrative representations from ancient Greece and Rome, of the sea as a cultural imaginary. This imaginary seems often to oscillate between two extremes: the utopian and the catastrophic; such representations can be found in narratives from ancient history, philosophy, society, and literature, as well as in their post-classical receptions. Utopia can be found in some imaginary island paradise far away and across the distant sea; the sea can hold an unknown, mysterious, divine wealth below its surface; and the sea itself as a powerful watery body can hold a liberating potential. The utopian quality of the sea and seafaring can become a powerful metaphor for articulating political notions of the ideal state or for expressing an individual’s sense of hope and subjectivity. Yet the catastrophic sea balances any perfective imaginings: the sea threatens coastal inhabitants with floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes and sailors with storms and the accompanying monsters. From symbolic perspectives, the catastrophic sea represents violence, instability, the savage, and even cosmological chaos. The twelve papers in this volume explore the themes of utopia and catastrophe in the liminal environment of the sea, through the lens of history, philosophy, literature and classical reception. Contributors: Manuel Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, Vilius Bartninkas, Aaron L. Beek, Ross Clare, Gabriele Cornelli, Isaia Crosson, Ryan Denson, Rhiannon Easterbrook, Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Georgia L. Irby, Simona Martorana, Guy Middleton, Hamish Williams.
Misinformation Disinformation And Propaganda In Greek Historiography
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Author : Thomas Figueira
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-12-12
Misinformation Disinformation And Propaganda In Greek Historiography written by Thomas Figueira and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-12 with History categories.
Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda. Even the greatest ancient historians, striving for factuality and truthfulness, must commence from subjectivity. Their works, when studied closely, reveal biases and conceptual or ideological distortions their own and others'. For this reason, Misinformation, Disinformation and Propaganda in Greek Historiography strives to evaluate the issues which stand in the way of factuality in historical texts and records. The contributors, all experts in the field, explore and question the accuracy of the historiography in question; the ancient author's fidelity to their sources; and the evidence presented in relation to inherited oral traditions. In this way, an ancient author's methodology is evaluated in terms of its probability, the awareness of its cultural variation and the influences which we can deduce within the texts. This volume presents an important contribution to the study of what constitutes fact and fiction within ancient Greek historiography.