Cosmos in the Ancient World

Herausgeber: Horky, Phillip Sidney

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781108438223
• ISBN-10: 1108438229
• Artikelnr.: 64226106

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Phillip Sidney Horky; 1. When did Kosmos become the Kosmos?
Phillip Sidney Horky; 2. Ordering the universe in speech: Kosmos and
Diakosmos in Parmenides' poem Arnaud Macé; 3. Diakosmêsis Malcolm
Schofield; 4. Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi Monte Ransome Johnson; 5.
Order and orderliness: the myth of 'inner beauty' in Plato George
Boys-Stones; 6. Polis as Kosmos in Plato's laws Luc Brisson; 7. Relating to
the world, encountering the other: Plotinus on cosmic and human action
Pauliina Remes; 8. Tradition and innovation in the Kosmos-Polis analogy
Carol Atack; 9. Cosmic choruses: metaphor and performance Renaud Gagné; 10.
All the world's a stage: Contemplatio Mundi in Roman theatre Robert
Germany; 11. The architectural representation of the Kosmos from Varro to
Hadrian Gilles Sauron; 12. 'The deep-sticking boundary stone': cosmology,
sublimity, and knowledge in Lucretius' De rerum natura and Seneca's
Naturales quaestiones W. H. Shearin; 13. Cosmic spiritualism among the
Pythagoreans, Stoics, Jews, and early Christians Phillip Sidney Horky;
Afterword Victoria Wohl.