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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination : Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations, Text References and Translations -- Abbreviations -- Note on Text References -- DK, G and LM -- Translations -- Note on Text -- Part I The Moon in...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2020
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| Series: | Greek Culture in the Roman World Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6379870 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations, Text References and Translations -- Abbreviations -- Note on Text References -- DK, G and LM -- Translations -- Note on Text -- Part I The Moon in the Mythic Imagination -- Introduction: To the Moon! Journey into the Ancient Scientific Imagination -- Chapter 1 The Moon in Ritual, Myth and Magic -- The Moon and Time, Ritual, Religion -- Selene and Endymion: Desire and the Female Gaze -- Lunar Liquid: The Moon-Womb and Proto-philosophy -- Moon-Illusions -- Simaetha's Love-Spell: Magic, Lamps and the Moon -- The 'Thessalian Trick': Magic, Mirrors and the Moon -- The Marriage of Selene and Endymion -- Conclusion -- Part II The Moon in the Scientific Imagination -- Chapter 2 Making Sense of the Moon: Philosophy and Science -- What Is the Moon? The Lunar Artefact -- The Lunar Laboratory: Change and Epistemology -- Heliophotism and the Reflecting Eye -- The Moon Becomes a World -- Metaphysical Moon: The Old Academy and Pythagoreans -- Xenocrates, Philip and the Moon in the Middle -- The Moon in the Pythagorean Cosmos -- Eschatological Moon -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Life on the Moon: Between Philosophy, Science and Fantasy -- Pythagorean Moon-Creatures -- The Woman Who Fell to Earth: Helen of Troy -- The Nemean Lion and Other Lunar Creatures -- Conclusion: The Question of Belief -- Chapter 4 The Moon of Many Faces: Plutarch's Great Lunar Dialogue De Facie -- Plutarch's De Facie and the Duel of the Philosophies -- Plutarch's Inter-disciplinary Moon -- The Lunar Texture of De Facie -- Theon, Lamprias and Life on the Moon -- Sulla's Myth: The Moon as Metaphysical Junction -- Literary Coordinates and a Map to the Moon -- Conclusion: A Landmark in the Selenographical Tradition. Part III The Moon in the Fantastic Imagination -- Chapter 5 The Imaginary Moon: Lunar Journeys -- The First Man to Go to the Moon? The Dream Hoax in Varro's Endymiones -- From Thule to the Moon: Antonius Diogenes's Scientific Fiction -- Astro-poetics: Icaromenippus, the Moon and Lucianic Mixis -- Disintegration, Dissent and Creative Hybridity: Lucian's Moon as 'Third Space' -- Lucian's Scientific Imagination: Cosmic War, Lunar Anatomy and a Proto-telescope -- Conclusion: Scientific Fiction and the Moon -- Chapter 6 Selenoskopia: The Moon-View from Fiction to Reality -- Lucian, Icaromenippus and the Ancient Telescopic Tradition -- Modern Selenoskopic Tradition: The First Wave 1966-1972 -- The Second Wave: Pale Blue Dot and The Day the Earth Smiled -- Conclusion: Between Entanglement and Detachment -- Envoi: The Legacy of Ancient Selenography -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index Locorum. A deep dive into the Moon's powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (338 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108664509 |
