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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2020
      October 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108685726
      9781108483032
      9781108716284
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685726
      Dimensions:
      (240 x 160 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 338 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 338 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, History of Ideas, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, History of Ideas, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    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.

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    ‘The book will interest historians of ideas, scholars of ancient science and philosophy, and anyone engaged with science fiction. Recommended.’

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