Patrick Glauthier

The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome

Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the significance of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. By connecting Manilius' Astronomica, Seneca's Natural Questions, Lucan's Civil War, and the anonymous Aetna for the first time, it tells a new story about the study of nature at Rome, locates the sublimity of that study at the center of early imperial Latin literature, and thereby renders the classical sublime more expansive, dynamic, and contested.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780197787557
• ISBN-10: 019778755X
• Artikelnr.: 73143287

Autorenporträt

Patrick Glauthier is Assistant Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Locating the Scientific Sublime
2. Manilius and the Aesthetics of the Infinite
3. Seneca's Natural Questions: The Promise and Danger of the Sublime
4. Lucan: Natural Inquiry in a Time of Civil War
5. Aetna and the Wonders of the Earth
Epilogue: The Scientific Sublime and the Case of the Elder Pliny
Bibliography
Index of Passages
General Index