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Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Paperback)
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Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Paperback)
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This book explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific,
philosophical, and spiritual aspects of water. From the ancient
point of view, we investigate many questions including: How does
water help shape the world? What is the nature of the ocean? What
causes watery weather, including superstorms and snow? How does
water affect health, as a vector of disease or of healing? What is
the nature of deep-sea-creatures (including sea monsters)? What
spiritual forces can protect those who must travel on water? This
first complete study of water in the ancient imagination makes a
major contribution to classics, geography, hydrology and the
history of science alike. Water is an essential resource that
affects every aspect of human life, and its metamorphic properties
gave license to the ancient imagination to perceive watery
phenomena as the product of visible and invisible forces. As such,
it was a source of great curiosity for the Greeks and Romans who
sought to control the natural world by understanding it, and who,
despite technological limitations, asked interesting questions
about the origins and characteristics of water and its influences
on land, weather, and living creatures, both real and imagined.
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