LEADER 05152nam 2200589 450 001 9910796760803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-11-056261-8 010 $a3-11-056355-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110563559 035 $a(CKB)4100000003666429 035 $a(DE-B1597)487708 035 $a(OCoLC)1037981885 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110563559 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5157399 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11565882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5157399 035 $a(PPN)22729159X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003666429 100 $a20180612d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRecognizing miracles in antiquity and beyond /$fedited by Maria Gerolemou 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (450 pages) 225 1 $aTrends in classics - supplementary volumes ;$v53 311 $a3-11-053046-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments / $rGerolemou, Maria -- $tTable of Contents -- $tIntroduction: In search of the Miraculous / $rGerolemou, Maria -- $tI. Miracles -- $tCtesias' Indica and the Origins of Paradoxography / $rNichols, Andrew -- $tThe Epidaurian Iamata: The first "Court of Miracles"? / $rPrêtre, Clarisse -- $tMedicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond / $rKazantzidis, George -- $t'One might rightly wonder' - marvelling in Polybios Histories / $rHau, Lisa Irene -- $tOmens and Miracles: Interpreting Miraculous Narratives in Roman Historiography / $rPapaioannou, Sophia -- $tMiracles and Pseudo-Miracles in Byzantine Apocalypses / $rKraft, András -- $tII. Workings of Miracles -- $tWonder-ful Memories in Herodotus' Histories / $rGerolemou, Maria -- $tWonder(s) in Plautus / $rDemetriou, Chrysanthi -- $tTelling Tales of Wonder: Mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger / $rNeger, Margot -- $tParadoxographic discourse on sources and fountains: deconstructing paradoxes / $rDelattre, Charles -- $tLucian's Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder / $rMheallaigh, Karen ní -- $tIII. Believing in Miracles -- $tPerceiving Thauma in Archaic Greek Epic / $rHunzinger, Christine -- $tTurning Science into Miracle in the Voyage of Alexander the Great / $rPajón Leyra, Irene -- $t'Many are the wonders in Greece': Pausanias the wandering philosopher / $rLangerwerf, Lydia -- $tMiracles in Greek Biography / $rTsakmakis, Antonis -- $tApuleius on Raising the Dead Crossing the Boundaries of Life and Death while Convincing the Audience / $rMay, Regine -- $tRecognizing Miracles in ancient Greek Novels / $rLateiner, Donald -- $tList of Contributors -- $tIndex Nominum et Rerum 330 $aIn recent years, scholars have extensively explored the function of the miraculous and wondrous in ancient narratives, mostly pondering on how ancient authors view wondrous accounts, i.e. the treatment of the descriptions of wondrous occurrences as true events or their use. More precisely, these narratives investigate whether the wondrous pursues a display of erudition or merely provides stylistic variety; sometimes, such narratives even represent the wish of the author to grant a "rational explanation" to extraordinary actions. At present, however, two aspects of the topic have not been fully examined: a) the ability of the wondrous/miraculous to set cognitive mechanisms in motion and b) the power of the wondrous/miraculous to contribute to the construction of an authorial identity (that of kings, gods, or narrators). To this extent, the volume approaches miracles and wonders as counter intuitive phenomena, beyond cognitive grasp, which challenge the authenticity of human experience and knowledge and push forward the frontiers of intellectual and aesthetic experience. Some of the articles of the volume examine miracles on the basis of bewilderment that could lead to new factual knowledge; the supernatural is here registered as something natural (although strange); the rest of the articles treat miracles as an endpoint, where human knowledge stops and the unknown divine begins (here the supernatural is confirmed). Thence, questions like whether the experience of a miracle or wonder as a counter intuitive phenomenon could be part of long-term memory, i.e. if miracles could be transformed into solid knowledge and what mental functions are encompassed in this process, are central in the discussion. 410 0$aTrends in classics.$pSupplementary volumes ;$v53. 606 $aSupernatural in literature 606 $aMiracles in literature 610 $aCommemoration. 610 $apaideia. 610 $areligion. 610 $ascience. 615 0$aSupernatural in literature. 615 0$aMiracles in literature. 676 $a808.80375 686 $a930$2sdnb$qDE-101 702 $aGerolemou$b Maria 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796760803321 996 $aRecognizing miracles in antiquity and beyond$93842054 997 $aUNINA