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The cosmic viewpoint [[electronic resource] ] : a study of Seneca's Natural questions / / Gareth Williams
| The cosmic viewpoint [[electronic resource] ] : a study of Seneca's Natural questions / / Gareth Williams |
| Autore | Williams Gareth D |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
| Disciplina |
188
500 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science, Ancient - Historiography
Meteorology - Historiography |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-049098-5
1-280-59528-0 9786613625113 0-19-974251-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Interiority and Cosmic Consciousness in the Natural Questions; I. Seneca's Totalizing Worldview; II. The Senecan Worldview Defined by Contrast with Cicero; III. Interiorization in the Preface to Book 3; IV. The Differing World Outlooks of Seneca and Pliny; V. The Natural Questions in Sociopolitical Context; 2. Seneca's Moralizing Interludes; I. The Problem; II. Hostius Quadra as the Anti-Sapiens; III. The Unified World as Drawn in Books 1 and 2.1-11; IV. Hostius Quadra and Seneca's Interlocutor in Book 1
V. Of Subterranean Fish and Degenerate Diners in 3.17-18VI. Further Transgressions in 5.15 and 7.31-32; VII. The Textual Containment of Vice; 3. The Cataclysm and the Nile; I. Introduction; II. The Vice of Flattery; III. Lucilius in the Preface; IV. The Cataclysm of 3.27-30; V. Into Egypt; VI. The Nile, the Cataclysm and Ovid; VII. The Missing Link, and Other Theories of the Nile Flood; 4. The Rhetoric of Science; I. Introduction; II. 4b.13 in Context; III. The Rhetoric of Science; IV. Strategies of Argument in 4b.3-7; A. Reliance on Influential Authority; B. Argument by Analogy C. Argument by Bold InferenceD. Competing Arguments; E. Superstition in Contention with Reason; V. The Better Argument; VI. Book 4b in Context; 5. Seneca on Winds; I. Introduction; II. Pre-Stoic and Stoic Theories of Wind; III. Seneca's Typology of Winds; IV. Mapping the Winds; A. The Cardinal Winds in Ovid; B. The Varronian Compass Card; C. The Twelve Sectors; D. Local Winds; V. Wind Direction, Human Misdirection; VI. The Roman Dimension; 6. Earthquakes, Consolation and the Senecan Sublime; I. Introduction; II. Consolatory Amplification Before Reduction; III. Sublime Superiority over Nature IV. The Two Verse Quotations at 6.2.1-3 and 6.2.9V. Controlling Nature in the Senecan Inventory (6.4-26); A. Taking Stock of Earlier Seismological Investigation; B. From Sight to Insight; C. From Analogical Inference to Abstract Speculation; D. The Living Cosmos; E. Elemental Interchangeability Revisited; F. The Normalization of Seismic Experience; VI. The Totum in Book 6; VII. The Campanian Earthquake in Perspective; 7. Seneca on Comets and Ancient Cometary Theory; I. Introduction; II. Seneca on Progress, on Hostius Quadra and on Nature's Mysteries III. Sub- and Supralunary Interpretation of CometsIV. The Whirlwind Theory; V. The Optical Illusion Theory; VI. The Planetary Theory; VII. The Senecan Theory; 8. Seneca on Lightning and Divination; I. Introduction; II. Coordination Between 2.12-30 and 2.54-58; III. The Totalizing Worldview: Strategies of Unification in 2.1, 2.12-30 and 2.54-58; A. 2.1-11; B. 2.12-30 and 2.54-58; C. 2.32-51; IV. Seneca on Divination in 2.32-51; A. Reconciling Prayer and Expiation with a Deterministic View of Fate (2.35-38); B. The "Scientific" Classification of Lightning (2.39-40) C. Seneca's Rationalization of Etruscan Belief (2.42-46) |
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
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Studies in the Text of Seneca's "Naturales Quaestiones" / / Harry M. Hine
| Studies in the Text of Seneca's "Naturales Quaestiones" / / Harry M. Hine |
| Autore | Hine Harry M. |
| Edizione | [Reprint 2011] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leipzig : , : B. G. Teubner, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Collana | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde |
| Soggetto topico |
Science, Ancient - Historiography
Meteorology - Historiography |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-11-095807-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- PREFACE -- Contents -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION: THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION -- 1 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 1 -- 2 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 2 -- 3 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 3 -- 4 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 4a -- 5 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 4b -- 6 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 5 -- 7 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 6 -- 8 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 7 -- Index of Passages Discussed -- Index Rerum et Verborum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461970803321 |
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Hine Harry M.
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| Leipzig : , : B. G. Teubner, , [2012] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Studies in the Text of Seneca's "Naturales Quaestiones" / / Harry M. Hine
| Studies in the Text of Seneca's "Naturales Quaestiones" / / Harry M. Hine |
| Autore | Hine Harry M. |
| Edizione | [Reprint 2011] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leipzig : , : B. G. Teubner, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Collana | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde |
| Soggetto topico |
Science, Ancient - Historiography
Meteorology - Historiography |
| ISBN | 3-11-095807-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- PREFACE -- Contents -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION: THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION -- 1 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 1 -- 2 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 2 -- 3 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 3 -- 4 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 4a -- 5 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 4b -- 6 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 5 -- 7 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 6 -- 8 Notes on Naturales Quaestiones Book 7 -- Index of Passages Discussed -- Index Rerum et Verborum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910656846803321 |
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Hine Harry M.
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| Leipzig : , : B. G. Teubner, , [2012] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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