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.
All Things Ancient Greece 2 Volumes
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Author : James W. Ermatinger
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-10-11
All Things Ancient Greece 2 Volumes 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.
Hyperboreans
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Author : Timothy P. Bridgman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-02-29
Hyperboreans written by Timothy P. Bridgman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-29 with History categories.
In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification, and provides reasons why some ancient Greek authors identified a mythical people with an actual one. Timothy P. Bridgman demonstrates not only that these authors mythologize history, but that they used the traditional Greek parallel mythical world to interpret history throughout ancient Greek culture, thought and literature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heaven And Earth In Ancient Greek Cosmology
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Author : Dirk L. Couprie
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-03-23
Heaven And Earth In Ancient Greek Cosmology written by Dirk L. Couprie and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-23 with Science categories.
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.
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.
Ancient Greek Cosmogony
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Author : Andrew Gregory
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Ancient Greek Cosmogony written by Andrew Gregory and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
"Ancient Greek Cosmogony" is the first detailed and comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It covers the period from 800 BC to 600 AD, beginning with myths concerning the creation of the world. The main part of the book deals with Greek theories of how the cosmos came into being. These divide into four broad types: the designed unique cosmos (archetypically, Plato), the multiplicity of accidental worlds (the atomists), the cyclical cosmogonies of Empedocles, and the Stoics and the anti-cosmogony ideas of Parmenides and Aristotle. The final part of the book deals with the debate between Greek philosophy and early Christianity. It is argued that the Greeks first formulated many of the perennial problems of cosmogony, and also formulated many of the possible types of solution.