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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination Karen ni Mheallaigh (University of Exeter)

The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination By Karen ni Mheallaigh (University of Exeter)

The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination by Karen ni Mheallaigh (University of Exeter)

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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.

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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy by Karen ni Mheallaigh (University of Exeter)

The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its attributes, and its 'inhabitants' given by ancient philosophers, natural scientists and imaginative writers including Pythagoreans, Plato and the Old Academy, Varro, Plutarch and Lucian. ni Mheallaigh shows how the Moon's enigmatic presence made it a key site for thinking about the gaze (erotic, philosophical and scientific) and the relation between appearance and reality. It was also a site for hoax in antiquity as well as today. Central issues explored include the view from elsewhere (selenoskopia), the relation of science and fiction, the interaction between the beginnings of science in the classical polis and the imperial period, and the limits of knowledge itself.

The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination Reviews

'The book will interest historians of ideas, scholars of ancient science and philosophy, and anyone engaged with science fiction. Recommended.' P. Nieto, Choice

About Karen ni Mheallaigh (University of Exeter)

Karen ni Mheallaigh is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (Cambridge, 2014).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, text references and translations; Part I. The Moon in the Mythic Imagination: Introduction: to the Moon! Journey into the ancient scientific imagination; 1. The Moon in ritual, myth and magic; Part II. The Moon in the Scientific Imagination: 2. Making sense of the Moon: philosophy and science; 3. Life on the Moon: between philosophy, science and fantasy; 4. The Moon of many faces: Plutarch's great lunar dialogue De facie; Part III. The Moon in the Fantastic Imagination: 5. The imaginary Moon: lunar journeys; 6. Selcnoskopia: the Moon-view from fiction to reality; Envoi: the legacy of ancient selenography; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781108716284
9781108716284
1108716288
The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy by Karen ni Mheallaigh (University of Exeter)
Karen ni Mheallaigh (University of Exeter)
Greek Culture in the Roman World
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Cambridge University Press
2021-07-29
336
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