Book ID: CBB403481991

Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019)

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Horky, Phillip Sidney (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 371
Language: English

How did the ancient Greeks and Romans conceptualise order? This book answers that question by analysing the formative concept of kosmos ('order', 'arrangement', 'ornament') in ancient literature, philosophy, science, art, and religion. This concept encouraged the Greeks and Romans to develop theories to explain core aspects of human life, including nature, beauty, society, politics, the individual, and what lies beyond human experience. Hence, Greek kosmos, and its Latin correlate mundus, are subjects of profound reflection by a wide range of important ancient figures, including philosophers (Parmenides, Empedocles, the Pythagoreans, Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus), poets and playwrights (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Marcus Argentarius, Nonnus), intellectuals (Gorgias, Protagoras, Varro), and religious exegetes (Philo, the Gospel Writers, Paul). By revealing kosmos in its many ancient manifestations, this book asks us to rethink our own sense of 'order', and to reflect on our place within a broader cosmic history.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Alexander
Duke, Dennis W.
Matthew M. Gorey
Tumėnas, Vytautas
James Ker
Revello, Manuela
Concepts
Cosmology
Astronomy
Science and culture
Philosophy
Astrology
Science and religion
Time Periods
Ancient
2nd century
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
China
Middle and Near East
Egypt
Baltic States
Institutions
University of Pennsylvania
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