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Cosmic Viewpoint

By Williams, Gareth D

Cosmic Viewpoint

By Williams, Gareth D

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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?
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
408
Release Date:
2012-04-05
Publication Date:
2012-04-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199731586
ISBN13:
9780199731589
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
775 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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