Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions
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Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what notoriously sets Seneca's writing apart is his insertion of extended moralizing sections within his technical discourse. How, if at all, are these outbursts against the luxury and vice that are apparently rampant in Seneca's first-century CE Rome to be reconciled with his main meteorological agenda?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0190490985
ISBN13:9780190490980
Release Date:March 2016
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:410 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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