Plutarch on the Face which Appears on the Orb of the Moon
Author : Plutarch
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Moon
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Author : Plutarch
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Moon
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Author : Luisa Lesage Gárriga
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004544178
In Plutarch’s Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch’s views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation, focusing on one of his most fascinating treatises. Dealing with the nature and function of the moon from multiple perspectives, this treatise offers a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge and religious-philosophical thought from the first centuries CE. Yet, up until now no single scholar has attempted an integral approach to its various and complementary perspectives, generally focusing on a specific aspect, as if they were unrelated. By means of this study, the author shows that De facie is a literary creation that reflects and conveys a coherent worldview, finally providing a solid and overarching understanding of the treatise.
Author : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1108483038
This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch's mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata.
Author : Plutarch
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Ethics
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004404473
This volume approaches Plutarch’s intellectual and professional activity, and the the way he managed to cover such an impressive range of areas and interests, which make of his work an inexhaustible source of information on the ancient world.
Author : Judy A. Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1317006526
The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods. Contributors examine how, in an historical era which realized an emphasis on nation and during a time when exploration was laying the foundation for empire, science and the literary discourse of the travel narrative become intrinsically linked. Together, the essays in this collection point out the way in which travel narratives reflect the anxiety from changes brought about through the discoveries of the 'new knowledge' and the way this knowledge in turn provided a new and more complex understanding of the expanding world in which the writers lived. The worlds in this text are many (for no 'world' is monomial), from the antipodes to the New World, from the heavens to the seas, and from fictional worlds to the world which contains and/or constructs one's nation and empire. All of these essays demonstrate the manner in which the New Philosophy dramatically changed literary discourse.
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Page : 622 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Michiel Meeusen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9462700842
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general.
Author : Robert Lamberton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300088113
Written around the year 100, Plutarch's Lives have shaped perceptions of the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks and Romans for nearly two thousand years. This engaging and stimulating book introduces both general readers and students to Plutarch's own life and work. Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which Plutarch worked--Greece under Roman rule--and discusses his family relationships, background, education, and political career. There are two sides to Plutarch: the most widely read source on Greek and Roman history and the educator whose philosophical and pedagogical concerns are preserved in the vast collection of essays and dialogues known as the Moralia. Lamberton analyzes these neglected writings, arguing that we must look here for Plutarch's deepest commitment as a writer and for the heart of his accomplishment. Lamberton also explores the connection between biography and historiography and shows how Plutarch's parallel biographies served the continuing process of cultural accommodation between Greeks and Romans in the Roman Empire. He concludes by discussing Plutarch's influence and reputation through the ages.
Author : Asiatic Society of Bengal
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1812
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