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Cosmos in the ancient world /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cosmos in the ancient world // edited by Phillip Sidney Horky.
other author:	Horky, Phillip Sidney,
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 348 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jun 2019).
Subject:	Cosmology, Ancient. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529082
ISBN:	9781108529082 (ebook)

Cosmos in the ancient world /
Cosmos in the ancient world /edited by Phillip Sidney Horky. - 1 online resource (xxii, 348 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jun 2019).

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.

ISBN: 9781108529082 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

785564
Cosmology, Ancient.

LC Class. No.: BD495 / .C676 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 113.093

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