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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: moon in the Greek and Roman imagination
    sub title: myth, literature, science and philosophy
  name:
    name part: Ni' Mheallaigh, Karen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Part I: The Moon in the mythic imagination. Introduction : To the Moon! Journey into the ancient scientific imagination ; The Moon in ritual, myth and magic -- Part II: The moon in the scientific imagination. Making sense of the Moon : philosophy and science ; Life on the Moon : between philosophy, science and fantasy; The Moon of many faces : Plutarch's great lunar dialogue De facie -- Part III: The moon in the fantastic imagination.The imaginary moon : lunar journeys -- Selēnoskopia : the moon-view from fiction to reality ; Envoi : The legacy of ancient selenography.
  note: Karen ní Mheallaigh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-316) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: zmo----
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    geographic: Moon
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Greek literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature and science
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Voyages, Imaginary
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial beings in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: Civilization
  classification: PA3015.M66 N52 2020
  classification: 880.9/36
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Greek culture in the Roman world
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191029
    record change date: 20210422111218.0
    record identifier: in00004432892