The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination

The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781108603188
ISBN-13 : 1108603181
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Book Synopsis The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination by : Karen ní Mheallaigh

Download or read book The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination written by Karen ní Mheallaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its attributes, and its 'inhabitants' given by ancient philosophers, natural scientists and imaginative writers including Pythagoreans, Plato and the Old Academy, Varro, Plutarch and Lucian. ní Mheallaigh shows how the Moon's enigmatic presence made it a key site for thinking about the gaze (erotic, philosophical and scientific) and the relation between appearance and reality. It was also a site for hoax in antiquity as well as today. Central issues explored include the view from elsewhere (selēnoskopia), the relation of science and fiction, the interaction between the beginnings of science in the classical polis and the imperial period, and the limits of knowledge itself.


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