Meteorology Beyond Borders: Ancient and Modern Reflections: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation, cartea 10
Giouli Korobili, Teun L Tielemanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 dec 2025
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ISBN-13: 9789004747098
ISBN-10: 9004747095
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation
ISBN-10: 9004747095
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation
Notă biografică
Giouli Korobili (Ph.D. Berlin 2018) is an Adjunct Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ioannina (Greece). She has published on ancient natural philosophy (notably Aristotle) and science including medicine. As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow she conducted the Geoanatomy project (Utrecht 2020-2023).
Teun Tieleman (Ph.D. Utrecht 1992) is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at Utrecht University. He has published on Galen and Stoicism among other subjects. He is President of OIKOS, the Netherlands school of classical studies.
Teun Tieleman (Ph.D. Utrecht 1992) is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at Utrecht University. He has published on Galen and Stoicism among other subjects. He is President of OIKOS, the Netherlands school of classical studies.
Cuprins
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
General Introduction
Giouli Korobili and Teun Tieleman
1 Modern Astronomy
Susanne M. Hoffmann
2 Modern Meteorology
Garry Toth
3 And Now for the Weather: Reflections and Research
Liba Taub
Part 1 Early-Classical and Classical Meteorology
4 Uncertain Disaster: the Paean as Response to Meteorological Signs
Michiel van Veldhuizen
5 Wind, Lightning and Disturbance in Sophocles’ Ajax and AntigoneDanchen Zhang
6 Meteorology as a Prefiguration of Life in Aristotle
Malcolm Wilson
Part 2 Hellenistic Meteorology
7 De Signis §§ 13 and 37 and Problemata physica 26.23 in the Context of Peripatetic Meteorology: Shooting Stars as Weather Signs
Robert Mayhew
8 Kata chronous paradoxa: Meteorological Wondrous Phenomena in Hellenistic Paradoxography
Dimitra Eleftheriou
9 Heavenly Dreams: Meteorological Elements in OneirocriticaTyson Sukava
10 The Adoption of Demeter and Kore by the Carthaginians in 396 BCE: a Climatological Perspective
Andrew Hill
11 Greek Echoes of Late Babylonian Astrometeorology
Cristian Tolsa
12 Can the Meteorology of Posidonius Be Called “Science”?
J. J. Hall
Part 3 (Greco-)Roman Meteorology
13 Lightning, Legitimacy, & Roman Political Power: from Myth to History and Back (3rd–1st c. BCE)
Vanda Strachan
14 Weather Predictions in Lucan’s Bellum CivileAnne-Sophie Meyer
15 Driving Winds and Wind-Driven Meteora in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica (with an Excursus on Lucretius)
Darcy Krasne
16 Volcanology within Ancient Meteorology: Some Epistemological Issues
Frédéric Le Blay
17 (Astro)Meteorology as a Tool for Medical Prognosis: Galen on Disease Forecasting
Konstantinos Stefou
18 Floods and Fires: a Treacherous Journey to Gaul
Frances Foster
Part 4 Late Antique and Medieval Meteorology
19 A Stratified World: Avicenna’s Model of the Sublunary Strata
Colin Fitzpatrick Murtha
20 Aristotle as Meteorological Authority in the Hellenistic Commentary on Hesiod’s Theogony Preserved in the Allegories by Johannes Galenus Deacon
Andrea Filoni
Part 5 Early Modern and Modern Meteorology
21 Meteorology as a Methodological and Aesthetic Device around 1800: towards an Integrative and Open Understanding of “Science”
Paul Ziche
22 Between Aristotle and Alexander von Humboldt: the Transformations of Meteorology
Rienk Vermij
Glossary
Susanne M. Hoffmann and Garry Toth
Index of Passages
General Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
General Introduction
Giouli Korobili and Teun Tieleman
1 Modern Astronomy
Susanne M. Hoffmann
2 Modern Meteorology
Garry Toth
3 And Now for the Weather: Reflections and Research
Liba Taub
Part 1 Early-Classical and Classical Meteorology
4 Uncertain Disaster: the Paean as Response to Meteorological Signs
Michiel van Veldhuizen
5 Wind, Lightning and Disturbance in Sophocles’ Ajax and AntigoneDanchen Zhang
6 Meteorology as a Prefiguration of Life in Aristotle
Malcolm Wilson
Part 2 Hellenistic Meteorology
7 De Signis §§ 13 and 37 and Problemata physica 26.23 in the Context of Peripatetic Meteorology: Shooting Stars as Weather Signs
Robert Mayhew
8 Kata chronous paradoxa: Meteorological Wondrous Phenomena in Hellenistic Paradoxography
Dimitra Eleftheriou
9 Heavenly Dreams: Meteorological Elements in OneirocriticaTyson Sukava
10 The Adoption of Demeter and Kore by the Carthaginians in 396 BCE: a Climatological Perspective
Andrew Hill
11 Greek Echoes of Late Babylonian Astrometeorology
Cristian Tolsa
12 Can the Meteorology of Posidonius Be Called “Science”?
J. J. Hall
Part 3 (Greco-)Roman Meteorology
13 Lightning, Legitimacy, & Roman Political Power: from Myth to History and Back (3rd–1st c. BCE)
Vanda Strachan
14 Weather Predictions in Lucan’s Bellum CivileAnne-Sophie Meyer
15 Driving Winds and Wind-Driven Meteora in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica (with an Excursus on Lucretius)
Darcy Krasne
16 Volcanology within Ancient Meteorology: Some Epistemological Issues
Frédéric Le Blay
17 (Astro)Meteorology as a Tool for Medical Prognosis: Galen on Disease Forecasting
Konstantinos Stefou
18 Floods and Fires: a Treacherous Journey to Gaul
Frances Foster
Part 4 Late Antique and Medieval Meteorology
19 A Stratified World: Avicenna’s Model of the Sublunary Strata
Colin Fitzpatrick Murtha
20 Aristotle as Meteorological Authority in the Hellenistic Commentary on Hesiod’s Theogony Preserved in the Allegories by Johannes Galenus Deacon
Andrea Filoni
Part 5 Early Modern and Modern Meteorology
21 Meteorology as a Methodological and Aesthetic Device around 1800: towards an Integrative and Open Understanding of “Science”
Paul Ziche
22 Between Aristotle and Alexander von Humboldt: the Transformations of Meteorology
Rienk Vermij
Glossary
Susanne M. Hoffmann and Garry Toth
Index of Passages
General Index