Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire

Herausgeber: Pelosi, Francesco; Petrucci, Federico M

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? This book explores different ways in which, in the Roman Imperial period, music was rather a fundamental part of complex philosophical discourses and the object of in-depth philosophical analyses, ranging from cosmology to ethics and from epistemology to theology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 367
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781108940955
• ISBN-10: 1108940951
• Artikelnr.: 63460259

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Francesco Pelosi and Federico Maria Petrucci; 1. Scala nature
and music: two models in Philo's thought Carlos Lévy; 2. Music and
Plutarch's Platonic cosmos Bram Demulder; 3. The harmoniser god: harmony as
a cosmological model in middle Platonist theology Federico M. Petrucci; 4.
Alexander of Aphrodisias and musical models for ontological enquiries Laura
M. Castelli; 5. How to resist musical dogmatism: the aim and methods of
Pyrrhonian inquiry in Sextus Empiricus' 'Against the Musicologists' (Math.
VI) Máté Veres; 6. Shifting epistemological perspectives in Ptolemy's
'Harmonics': from the science of sound to the study of music Andrew Barker;
7. Musical imagery in Clement of Alexandria and Origen: the Greek musical
world revised and accepted Francesco Pelosi; 8. Plotinus on music, rhythm,
and harmony Alexandra Michalewski; 9. Porphyry's 'Commentary on Ptolemy's
Harmonics': questions of philosophic and scientific identity Harold
Tarrant; 10. The music of the virtues in late ancient Platonism Dominic
O'Meara; 11. Harmonics as theological paradigm in Proclus Stephen Gersh;
12. Calcidius on cosmic harmony Christina Hoenig; 13. Harmonia in
Philoponus' 'Commentary on Nicomachus' introduction to arithmetic' Giovanna
R. Giardina.