Cosmos in the Ancient World

ISBN-13: 9781108423649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 370 str.

Phillip Sidney Horky

Opis

Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Spis treści

Introduction Phillip Sidney Horky; 1. When did Kosmos become the Kosmos? Phillip Sidney Horky; 2. Ordering the universe in speech: Kosmos and Diakosmos in Parmenides' poem Arnaud Macé; 3. Diakosmêsis Malcolm Schofield; 4. Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi Monte Ransome Johnson; 5. Order and orderliness: the myth of 'inner beauty' in Plato George Boys-Stones; 6. Polis as Kosmos in Plato's laws Luc Brisson; 7. Relating to the world, encountering the other: Plotinus on cosmic and human action Pauliina Remes; 8. Tradition and innovation in the Kosmos-Polis analogy Carol Atack; 9. Cosmic choruses: metaphor and performance Renaud Gagné; 10. All the world's a stage: Contemplatio Mundi in Roman theatre Robert Germany; 11. The architectural representation of the Kosmos from Varro to Hadrian Gilles Sauron; 12. 'The deep-sticking boundary stone': cosmology, sublimity, and knowledge in Lucretius' De rerum natura and Seneca's Naturales quaestiones W. H. Shearin; 13. Cosmic spiritualism among the Pythagoreans, Stoics, Jews, and early Christians Phillip Sidney Horky; Afterword Victoria Wohl.