The Alexandrian tradition : interactions between science, religion, and literature
Record details
- ISBN: 9783035107234
- ISBN: 3035107238
- ISBN: 1306932793
- ISBN: 9781306932790
- ISBN: 9783034314527
- ISBN: 3034314523
-
Physical Description:
remote
1 online resource. - Publisher: Bern : Peter Lang, 2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Mathematics & religion in ancient Greece and medieval Islam / John Lennart Berggren -- Mechanics and imagination in ancient Greek astronomy : Sphairopoiïa as image and tool / James Evans -- Alexandrian astronomy in the 2nd century AD : Ptolemy and his times / Anne Tihon -- Note on a passage of the Arabic translation of Ptolemy's Planetary hypotheses / Sébastien Moureau -- Isis, Sarapis, Cyrus and John : between healing gods and thaumaturgical saints / Laurent Bricault -- The Song of Orpheus in the Argonautica and the Theogonic Library of Apollonius / Marco Antonio Santamaría -- Paradox and the marvellous in Greek poetry of the imperial period / Luis Arturo Guichard -- Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome : the case of Dionysius' Periegesis of the known world / Jane Lucy Lightfoot -- Lucian's Podagra, Asclepius and Galen : the popularisation of medicine in the second century AD / María Paz de Hoz -- Christian paideia in early imperial Alexandria / Clelia Martínez Maza -- "When I scan the circling spirals of the stars, no longer do I touch earth with my feet" / Juan Luis García Alonso -- Nonnus' natural histories : anything to do with Dionysus? / Laura Miguélez-Cavero -- Greek poetry in late antique Alexandria : between culture and religion / Gianfranco Agosti. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Electronic books. Conference proceedings. History. |