rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: cosmic viewpoint
    sub title: a study of Seneca's Natural questions
  name:
    name part: Williams, Gareth D.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2012
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what notoriously sets Seneca's writing apart is his insertion of extended moralizing sections within his technical discourse. How, if at all, are these outbursts against the luxury and vice that are apparently rampant in Seneca's first-century CE Rome to be reconciled with his main meteorological agenda? In grappling with this familiar question, The Cosmic Viewpoint argues that Seneca is no blinkered or arid meteorological investigator, but a creative explorer into nature's workings who offers a highly idiosyncratic blend of physico-moral investigation across his eight books. At one level, his inquiry into nature impinges on human conduct and morality in its implicit propagation of the familiar Stoic ideal of living in accordance with nature: the moral deviants whom Seneca condemns in the course of the work offer egregious examples of living contrary to nature's balanced way. At a deeper level, however, The Cosmic Viewpoint stresses the literary qualities and complexities that are essential to Seneca's literary art of science: his technical enquiries initiate a form of engagement with nature which distances the reader from the ordinary involvements and fragmentations of everyday life, instead centering our existence in the cosmic whole. From a figurative standpoint, Seneca's meteorological theme raises our gaze from a terrestrial level of existence to a more intuitive plane where literal vision gives way to 'higher' conjecture and intuition: in striving to understand meteorological phenomena, we progress in an elevating direction - a conceptual climb that renders the Natural Questions no mere store of technical learning, …
  table of contents: Interiority and Cosmic Consciousness in the Natural Questions -- Seneca's Moralizing Interludes -- The Cataclysm and the Nile -- The Rhetoric of Science -- Seneca on Winds -- Earthquakes, Consolation, and the Senecan Sublime -- Seneca on Comets and Ancient Cometary Theory -- Seneca on Lightning and Divination.
  note: Gareth Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
      name part: approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Naturales quaestiones (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus)
  subject:
    topic: Science, Ancient
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Meteorology
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Sciences anciennes
    topic: Historiographie
  subject:
    topic: Météorologie
    topic: Historiographie
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Essays
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Reference
  subject:
    topic: Meteorology
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Science, Ancient
    topic: Historiography
  classification: PA6661.N3 W55 2012eb
  classification: 500
  classification: (09)
  classification: 1
  classification: 5
  classification: 504.4
  classification: 93/94
  classification: CD 7015
  classification: FX 210555
  classification: 5,1
  classification: 6,12
  classification: B502.43
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cosmic viewpoint
    name:
      name part: Williams, Gareth D.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012
    identifier: (DLC) 2011022209
    identifier: (OCoLC)739645963
  identifier: 9780199742516
  identifier: 0199742510
  identifier: 1280595280
  identifier: 9781280595288
  identifier: 9780199933112
  identifier: 0199933111
  identifier: 9780199731589
  identifier: 0199731586
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 120326
    record change date: 20260318190331.5
    record identifier: in00005708016
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng