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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Luis Arturo Guichard , Juan Luis García Alonso , María Paz de HozPublisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Edition: New edition Volume: 28 Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9783034314527ISBN 10: 3034314523 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 25 June 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: John Lennart Berggren: Mathematics & Religion in Ancient Greece and Medieval Islam – James Evans: Mechanics and Imagination in Ancient Greek Astronomy: Sphairopoiïa as Image and Tool – Anne Tihon: Alexandrian Astronomy in the 2nd Century AD: Ptolemy and his Times – Sébastien Moureau: Note on a passage of the Arabic translation of Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses – Laurent Bricault: Isis, Sarapis, Cyrus and John: Between Healing Gods and Thaumaturgical Saints – Marco Antonio Santamaría: The Song of Orpheus in the Argonautica and the Theogonic Library of Apollonius – Luis Arturo Guichard: Paradox and the Marvellous in Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period – Jane Lucy Lightfoot: Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome: the case of Dionysius’ Periegesis of the Known World – María Paz De Hoz: Lucian’s Podagra, Asclepius and Galen. The popularisation of medicine in the second century AD – Clelia Martínez Maza: Christian Paideia in Early Imperial Alexandria – Juan Luis García Alonso: «When I scan the circling spirals of the stars, no longer do I touch earth with my feet» – Laura Miguélez-Cavero: Nonnus’ natural histories: anything to do with Dionysus? – Gianfranco Agosti: Greek Poetry in Late Antique Alexandria: between Culture and Religion.ReviewsAuthor InformationLuis Arturo Guichard, Juan Luis García Alonso and María Paz de Hoz are Associate Professors of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca. They all three collaborate in the research Project FFI2011-29180 – «Interactions between science, religion and literature in the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean», which is financed by Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |