The Moon In The Greek And Roman Imagination
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download The Moon In The Greek And Roman Imagination PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Moon In The Greek And Roman Imagination book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Moon In The Greek And Roman Imagination
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Karen ní Mheallaigh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-22
The Moon In The Greek And Roman Imagination written by Karen ní Mheallaigh 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 2020-10-22 with History categories.
This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch's mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata.
The Moon The Western Imagination
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Scott L. Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1999
The Moon The Western Imagination written by Scott L. Montgomery and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Science categories.
The Moon is at once a face with a thousand expressions and the archetypal planet. Throughout history it has been gazed upon by people of every culture in every walk of life. From early perceptions of the Moon as an abode of divine forces, humanity has in turn accepted the mathematized Moon of the Greeks, the naturalistic lunar portrait of Jan van Eyck, and the telescopic view of Galileo. Scott Montgomery has produced a richly detailed analysis of how the Moon has been visualized in Western culture through the ages, revealing the faces it has presented to philosophers, writers, artists, and scientists for nearly three millennia. To do this, he has drawn on a wide array of sources that illustrate mankind's changing concept of the nature and significance of heavenly bodies from classical antiquity to the dawn of modern science. Montgomery especially focuses on the seventeenth century, when the Moon was first mapped and its features named. From literary explorations such as Francis Godwin's Man in the Moone and Cyrano de Bergerac's L'autre monde to Michael Van Langren's textual lunar map and Giambattista Riccioli's Almagestum novum, he shows how Renaissance man was moved by the lunar orb, how he battled to claim its surface, and how he in turn elevated the Moon to a new level in human awareness. The effect on human imagination has been cumulative: our idea of the Moon, and therefore the planets, is multilayered and complex, having been enriched by associations played out in increasingly complicated harmonies over time. We have shifted the way we think about the lunar face from a "perfect" body to an earthlike one, with corresponding changes in verbal and visual expression. Ultimately, Montgomery suggests, our concept of the Moon has never wandered too far from the world we know best—the Earth itself. And when we finally establish lunar bases and take up some form of residence on the Moon's surface, we will not be conquering a New World, fresh and mostly unknown, but a much older one, ripe with history.
Greek Declamation And The Roman Empire
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : William Guast
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Greek Declamation And The Roman Empire written by William Guast 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 2023-06-30 with History categories.
Shows how Greek declamation's staging of the Classical past was of vital importance for the Greek imperial present.
Byzantine Media Subjects
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Glenn A. Peers
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-15
Byzantine Media Subjects written by Glenn A. Peers and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-15 with History categories.
Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.
Mirrors And Mirroring From Antiquity To The Early Modern Period
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Maria Gerolemou
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Mirrors And Mirroring From Antiquity To The Early Modern Period written by Maria Gerolemou and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with History categories.
This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The international scholars brought together here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine – prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.
The Babylonian Talmud And Late Antique Book Culture
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Monika Amsler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-30
The Babylonian Talmud And Late Antique Book Culture written by Monika Amsler 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 2023-04-30 with Religion categories.
A new theory of the Talmud's formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.
Roman Ionia
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Martin Hallmannsecker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-19
Roman Ionia written by Martin Hallmannsecker 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 2022-05-19 with History categories.
First full-length study of the cultural identity of the Ionian Greeks in Western Asia Minor under Roman rule.
The Death Of Myth On Roman Sarcophagi
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Mont Allen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-31
The Death Of Myth On Roman Sarcophagi written by Mont Allen 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 2022-12-31 with Art categories.
This book explores the disappearance of Greek mythic imagery from the Roman sarcophagi in the 3rd Century.
The Cambridge Companion To The Roman Historians
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Andrew Feldherr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-24
The Cambridge Companion To The Roman Historians written by Andrew Feldherr 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 2009-09-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of scholars that aim both to orient non-specialist readers to the important concerns of the Roman historians and also to stimulate new research.
The Ancient Sea
DOWNLOAD eBooks
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.