The Alexandrian tradition : interactions between science, religion, and literature
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Guichard, Luis Arturo, 1973-
, [HerausgeberIn]
García Alonso, Juan Luis , [HerausgeberIn] Hoz, María Paz de , [HerausgeberIn] |
|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Bern ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2014].
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| Umfang/Format: |
324 pages : illustrations (some color). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Ricerche di cultura europea = Forschungen zur europäischen Kultur,
Band 28 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum Alexandria |
| Online Zugang: |
Online available (Ebook Central) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Mathematics & religion in ancient Greece and medieval Islam / John Lennart Berggren
- Mechanics and imagination in ancient Greek astronomy : Sphairopoiïa as image and tool / James Evans
- Alexandrian astronomy in the 2nd century AD : Ptolemy and his times / Anne Tihon
- Note on a passage of the Arabic translation of Ptolemy's Planetary hypotheses / Sébastien Moureau
- Isis, Sarapis, Cyrus and John : between healing gods and thaumaturgical saints / Laurent Bricault
- The Song of Orpheus in the Argonautica and the Theogonic Library of Apollonius / Marco Antonio Santamaría
- Paradox and the marvellous in Greek poetry of the imperial period / Luis Arturo Guichard
- Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome : the case of Dionysius' Periegesis of the known world / Jane Lucy Lightfoot
- Lucian's Podagra, Asclepius and Galen : the popularisation of medicine in the second century AD / María Paz de Hoz
- Christian paideia in early imperial Alexandria / Clelia Martínez Maza
- "When I scan the circling spirals of the stars, no longer do I touch earth with my feet" / Juan Luis García Alonso
- Nonnus' natural histories : anything to do with Dionysus? / Laura Miguélez-Cavero
- Greek poetry in late antique Alexandria : between culture and religion / Gianfranco Agosti.
