Gareth D Williams

Cosmic Viewpoint

A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the literary and philosophical qualities essential to Seneca's art of science in his Natural Questions. Seneca's meteorological theme raises our gaze from a terrestrial level to a higher, more intuitive plane - a conceptual climb by which Seneca promotes a change of perspective in his readership towards the cosmic viewpoint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199731589
• ISBN-10: 0199731586
• Artikelnr.: 34156663

Autorenporträt

Gareth D. Williams is Violin Family Professor of Classics at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Interiority and Cosmic Consciousness in the Natural Questions
II. Seneca's Moralizing Interludes
III. The Cataclysm and the Nile
IV. The Rhetoric of Science
V. Seneca on Winds
VI. Earthquakes, Consolation, and the Senecan Sublime
VII. Seneca on Comets and Ancient Cometary Theory
VIII. Seneca on Lightning and Divination
Epilogue
Bibliography