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

The Moon exerted a potent affect on historical mental historical past, as a playground for the scientific creativeness. The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination, (PDF) research the historical past of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with an unique concentrate on these accounts of the Moon, its traits, and its ‘inhabitants’ given by pure scientists, historical philosophers, and imaginative writers together with Pythagoreans, Plato, and the Old Academy, Plutarch, Varro, and Lucian. ní Mheallaigh demonstrates how the Moon’s enigmatic presence made it the foremost website for eager about the gaze (philosophical, erotic, and scientific) and the hyperlink between actuality and look. It was additionally a website for hoaxes in antiquity in addition to at this time. Central points found embrace the view from elsewhere (selēnoskopia), the relation of fiction and science, the relations between the beginnings of science in the classical polis and the imperial interval, and the limits of data itself. NOTE: The product only consists of The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy (Greek Culture in the Roman World) in PDF. No access codes are included.