Cosmos in the Ancient World
Title | Cosmos in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip Sidney Horky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2019-07-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108423647 |
Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.
Cosmos in the Ancient World
Title | Cosmos in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip Sidney Horky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2022-06-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781108438223 |
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.
Cosmos in the Ancient World
Title | Cosmos in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip Sidney Horky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-07-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108540015 |
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.
Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Title | Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | James Evans |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691174407 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017.
A Portable Cosmos
Title | A Portable Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Jones |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019973934X |
"The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought"--
Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy
Title | Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Ricardo Salles |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2021-06-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108836577 |
Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.
God and the Cosmos
Title | God and the Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Lee Poe |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-02-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830839542 |
Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.