Download or read book Plutarch s Moon written by Luisa Lesage Gárriga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plutarch’s Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch’s views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation, focusing on one of his most fascinating treatises. Dealing with the nature and function of the moon from multiple perspectives, this treatise offers a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge and religious-philosophical thought from the first centuries CE. Yet, up until now no single scholar has attempted an integral approach to its various and complementary perspectives, generally focusing on a specific aspect, as if they were unrelated. By means of this study, the author shows that De facie is a literary creation that reflects and conveys a coherent worldview, finally providing a solid and overarching understanding of the treatise.
Download or read book Plutarch on the Face which Appears on the Orb of the Moon written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch On the Face which Appears in the Orb of the Moon written by Luisa Lesage Gárriga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plutarch: On the Face which Appears in the Orb of the Moon, Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new critical edition with English translation of one of Plutarch’s most fascinating treatises, and yet one of the least known to the wider public.
Download or read book Plutarch s Moon A New Approach to de Facie Quae in Orbe Lunae Apparet written by Luisa Lesage Gárriga and published by Brill's Plutarch Studies. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plutarch's Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch's views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation, and highlights the literary unit of one of his most fascinating treatises.
Download or read book Plutarch on the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon written by Plutarch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The opening chapters of the Dialogue being lost, we have no clue to the place where it is supposed to take place, nor to the time - unless one is given by the Eclipse of the Sun mentioned by Lucius in c. 19 - and some points in the actual course of the discussion require a word of explanation. This can be most readily supplied by an enumeration of the speakers, in the order of their appearance, followed by a short analysis of the argument. Where the names are those of real persons living in Plutarch's lifetime, or of those who appear in other dialogues, I assume identity. PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. 1. Sextius Sylla, the Carthaginian, mentioned in the Life of Romulus (c. 15) as "a man wanting neither learning nor ingenuity," who had supplied Plutarch with a piece of archaeological "information. Elsewhere (De cohib. ira. c. 1) he is addressed as "O most eager Sylla! " In another dialogue he declines to be led into a discussion on all cosmology by answering the question "whether the egg or the bird comes first?" (Quaest conv. ii, 3). He has a story, or myth, to tell about the Moon, which he is impatient to begin. This story, which he had heard from a friend in Carthage, is mainly geographical in interest. The details remind us of those quoted from Pytheas about his journeys to Britain and the Northern Seas. The whole conception of the globe is clearly earlier than that of Ptolemy (see especially as to the Caspian Sea, c. 26). The myth also introduces us to the worship of Cronus as practiced at Carthage, and connects it with the wonders of the Moon, and her place in the heavenly system. In c. 17 Sylla raises a good point, about the half-moon, which was being passed over. 2. Lamprias, a brother, probably an elder brother, of Plutarch, who directs the course of the conversation, and himself expounds the Academic view, referring to Lucius for his recollections of a recent discussion at which both had been present, when the Stoic doctrines on physics had been criticized. In some of the Symposiacs and other dialogues Lamprias takes a similar place; in others both brothers take part. Lamprias probably died early, see p. 15. "Evidently a character, a good trencherman, as became a Boeotian, one who on occasion could dance the Pyrrhic war-dance, who loved well a scoff and a jest .... and who, if he thrust himself somewhat brusquely into discussions which are going forward, was quite able to justify the intrusion." - Archbishop Trench.
Download or read book Plutarch on the Face which Appears on the Orb of the Moon written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch on the face which appears on the orb of the Moon Translation and notes with appendix written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Plutarch on the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon Classic Reprint written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch on the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon Lastly, I hope that some indulgence may be accorded, if it should be necessary, to the loco who undertakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination written by Karen ní Mheallaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. ní 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 (selēnoskopia), 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.
Download or read book Plutarch on the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Roman Questions of Plutarch written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination written by Karen ní Mheallaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Download or read book Travel Narratives the New Science and Literary Discourse 1569 1750 written by Judy A. Hayden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods. Contributors examine how, in an historical era which realized an emphasis on nation and during a time when exploration was laying the foundation for empire, science and the literary discourse of the travel narrative become intrinsically linked. Together, the essays in this collection point out the way in which travel narratives reflect the anxiety from changes brought about through the discoveries of the 'new knowledge' and the way this knowledge in turn provided a new and more complex understanding of the expanding world in which the writers lived. The worlds in this text are many (for no 'world' is monomial), from the antipodes to the New World, from the heavens to the seas, and from fictional worlds to the world which contains and/or constructs one's nation and empire. All of these essays demonstrate the manner in which the New Philosophy dramatically changed literary discourse.
