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This book explores Grahame's engagements with classical antiquity
in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody
(Batrachomyomachia), and pastoral imagery. Irby demonstrates how
subtle echoes - such as the structure into 12 books, arming scenes,
epic catalogues, anabases and katabases, lying tales, Toad's
"cleverness"-cumulatively suggest a link between The Wind in the
Willows and classical literature. This study offers the first
sustained treatment of classical allusions in The Wind in the
Willows, considering the entire novel, not isolated scenes,
building on existing scholarship to yield an interpretation through
the lens of classical literature and its reception in Victorian and
Edwardian England. This volume will provide a unique resource for
students and scholars of classical reception and literature, as
well as comparative literature, English literature, children's
literature, gender studies, and Grahame's writing.
We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active from 320 BCE to 230 CE. The book begins with an outline of a new socio-political model for the development and decline of Greek science, followed by eleven chapters that cover the main disciplines: * the science which the Greeks saw as fundamental - mathematics * astronomy * astrology and geography * mechanics * optics and pneumatics * the non-mathematical sciences of alchemy, biology, medicine and 'psychology'. Each chapter contains an accessible introduction on the origins and development of the topic in question, and all the authors are set in context with brief biographies.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Mathematics 3. Astronomy 4. Astrology 5. Geography 6. Mechanics 7. Optics 8. Hydrostatics and Pneumatics 9. Alchemy 10. Biology 11. Medicine 12. "Psychology"
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first
comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all
ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of
Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world's experts in the
field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which are
not mentioned in any other reference work - resulting in a unique
and hugely ambitious resource which will prove indispensable for
anyone seeking the details of the history of ancient science.
Additional features include a Glossary, Gazetteer, and Time-Line.
The Glossary explains many Greek (or Latin) terms difficult to
translate, whilst the Gazetteer describes the many locales from
which scientists came. The Time-Line shows the rapid rise in the
practice of science in the 5th century BCE and rapid decline after
Hadrian, due to the centralization of Roman power, with consequent
loss of a context within which science could flourish.
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first
comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all
ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of
Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world's experts in the
field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which are
not mentioned in any other reference work - resulting in a unique
and hugely ambitious resource which will prove indispensable for
anyone seeking the details of the history of ancient science.
Additional features include a Glossary, Gazetteer, and Time-Line.
The Glossary explains many Greek (or Latin) terms difficult to
translate, whilst the Gazetteer describes the many locales from
which scientists came. The Time-Line shows the rapid rise in the
practice of science in the 5th century BCE and rapid decline after
Hadrian, due to the centralization of Roman power, with consequent
loss of a context within which science could flourish.
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.
This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water
on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was
controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic
infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and
made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The
Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean (and numerous rivers) were
mastered by navigation for warfare, exploration, settlement,
maritime trade, and the exploitation of marine resources (such as
fishing). These waterways were also a robust source of propaganda
on coins, public monuments, and poetic encomia as governments vied
to establish, maintain, or spread their identities and
predominance. This first complete study of the ancient scientific
and public engagement with water makes a major contribution to
classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. In
the ancient Mediterranean Basin, water was a powerful tool of human
endeavor, employed for industry, trade, hunting and fishing, and as
an element in luxurious aesthetic installations (public and private
fountains). The relationship was complex and pervasive, touching on
every aspect of human life, from mundane acts of collecting water
for the household, to private and public issues of comfort and
health (latrines, sewers, baths), to the identity of the state writ
large.
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.
This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water
on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was
controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic
infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and
made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The
Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean (and numerous rivers) were
mastered by navigation for warfare, exploration, settlement,
maritime trade, and the exploitation of marine resources (such as
fishing). These waterways were also a robust source of propaganda
on coins, public monuments, and poetic encomia as governments vied
to establish, maintain, or spread their identities and
predominance. This first complete study of the ancient scientific
and public engagement with water makes a major contribution to
classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. In
the ancient Mediterranean Basin, water was a powerful tool of human
endeavor, employed for industry, trade, hunting and fishing, and as
an element in luxurious aesthetic installations (public and private
fountains). The relationship was complex and pervasive, touching on
every aspect of human life, from mundane acts of collecting water
for the household, to private and public issues of comfort and
health (latrines, sewers, baths), to the identity of the state writ
large.
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