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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination

The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination : Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 978-1-108-68572-6
著者・編者ni Mheallaigh, Karen,
シリーズGreek Culture in the Roman World
出版社(Cambridge University Press, UK)
出版年月2021
ページ数336 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<L25-19606>

解説

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. ni 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 (selenoskopia), 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.