The Cosmic Viewpoint (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
416
Utgivningsdatum
2012-04-19
Förlag
OUP USA
Illustrationer
1 line art
Dimensioner
236 x 155 x 33 mm
Vikt
681 g
Antal komponenter
1
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52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780199731589

The Cosmic Viewpoint

A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions'

av Gareth D Williams
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2012-04-19
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This book examines the literary and philosophical qualities essential to Seneca's art of science in his Natural Questions. Seneca's meteorological theme raises our gaze from a terrestrial level to a higher, more intuitive plane - a conceptual climb by which Seneca promotes a change of perspective in his readership towards the cosmic viewpoint.
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CHOICE Williams's exemplary, learned study of Natural Questions, Seneca's rarely read treatise on meteorology complements Harry Hine's translation of this work (2010) ... Although the author offers a wealth of insight into Seneca's use of sources, Williams's acumen as a close reader carefully attuned to the rhetorical and literary dimensions of Natural Questions stands out. Highly recommended.

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<br>Gareth D. Williams is Violin Family Professor of Classics at Columbia University.<br>

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ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; I. INTERIORITY AND COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE NATURAL QUESTIONS; II. SENECA'S MORALIZING INTERLUDES; III. THE CATACLYSM AND THE NILE; IV. THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE; V. SENECA ON WINDS; VI. EARTHQUAKES, CONSOLATION, AND THE SENECAN SUBLIME; VII. SENECA ON COMETS AND ANCIENT COMETARY THEORY; VIII. SENECA ON LIGHTNING AND DIVINATION ; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY

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