Gebundenes Buch

Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Beschreibung

Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future.

Autor

Antje Wessels, Dr. phil. (2001), University of Heidelberg, Habilitation (2011), Free University Berlin, is Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University. She has published books on aesthetic theory, history of scholarship, and reception of antiquity. Jacqueline Klooster, PhD (2009), University of Groningen, is assistant professor of Greek Literature. She has published widely on Hellenistic Poetry and other topics, including the monograph Poetry as Window and Mirror. Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry (Brill, 2011). Contributors are Susanna de Beer, Susanne Gödde, Annette Harder, Alexander Kirichenko, Jacqueline Klooster, Hugo Koning, Inger N.I. Kuin, Andrea de March, Sean E. McGrath, Michiel Meeusen, Antje Wessels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9789004500143
• ISBN-10: 9004500146
• Artikelnr.: 62353970