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The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
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The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
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It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and
Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human
affairs. Did they lack any conception of process in time, or did
they anticipate Darwinian and Lamarckian hypotheses? The Origins of
Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought, first published in1986,
comprehensively examines this issue. Beginning with creation myths
- Mother Earth and Pandora, the anti-progressive ideas of the
Golden Age, and the cyclical theories of Orphism - Professor
Blundell goes on to explore the origins of scientific speculation
among the Pre-Socratics, its development into the teleological
science of Aristotle, and the advent of the progressivist views of
the Stoics. Attention is also given to the 'primitivist' debate,
involving ideas about the noble savage and reflections of such
speculation in poetry, and finally the relationship between nature
and culture in ancient thought is investigated.
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