Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia

Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia
Author: Stefan Schorn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000986101

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This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him. The central section of the Mirabilia, namely §§ 78–151, for the most part deals with historiographical material, with many of its entries having some relationship to ancient Greek historians of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The chapters in this volume discuss various aspects of this portion of the text, including textual issues involving toponyms; possible structural principles behind the organization of this section; the passages on Theopompus and Timaeus; mythography; the philosopher Heracleides of Pontos; Homeric exegesis; and the interrelationship between pseudo-Plutarch’s On Rivers, a section of the historian Stobaeus’ Geography, and the Mirabilia. Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of this text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.

The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science

The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science
Author: Arnaud Zucker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1003850227

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This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text; the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle’s Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus’ scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular.

The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science

The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science
Author: Arnaud Zucker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: De mirabilibus auscultationibus
ISBN: 9781032651941

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"This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text; the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle's Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus' scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular"--

A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture

A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture
Author: Richard Stoneman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107167698

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Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004443355

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought explores both explicit and hidden influences of Presocratic (6-4th c. BCE) early scientific concepts, such as nature, elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Hippocratic philosophy

Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire

Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire
Author: Sarah Davies
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004411909

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In Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire, Sarah Davies explores how the Roman Republic evolved, in ideological terms, into an “Empire without end.” This work stands out within imperialism studies by placing an emphasis on the role of international-level norms in shaping Roman imperium.

Cosmic Order and Divine Power

Cosmic Order and Divine Power
Author: Johan C. Thom
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783161528095

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The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Author: Reviel Netz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108481477

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A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World

The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World
Author: Paul Turquand Keyser
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1065
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199734143

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With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, 'The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World' offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. 0The Handbook comprises five sections, each with a specific focus on ancient science and medicine. The Handbook provides through each of its approximately four dozen essays, a synthesis and synopsis of the concepts and models of the various ancient natural sciences, covering the early Greek era through the fall of the Roman Republic, including essays that explore topics such as music theory, ancient philosophers, astrology, and alchemy.

The Enigmatic Reality of Time

The Enigmatic Reality of Time
Author: Michael Wagner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9047443608

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This book integrates interdsciplinary work with philosophical analyses to explain facets of the perennial question of time's nature and existence, both in its contemporary and its original classical contexts, and it explains the two most influential investigations of the topic in classical Western thought: Aristotle's and Plotinus'.