Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperbo...

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1. Verfasser:	Gagné, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge classical studies
Schlagworte:	Hyperboreer Kosmografie Griechenland > Altertum
Online-Zugang:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973755
Zusammenfassung:	Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021)
Beschreibung:	xv, 553 Seiten 16 Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß)
ISBN:	9781108833233
DOI:	10.1017/9781108973755