Información General

• Autores: Luis Arturo Guichard Romero (coord.), Juan Luis García Alonso (coord.), María Paz de Hoz García-Bellido (coord.)
• Editores: Peter Lang
• Año de publicación: 2014
• Colecciones: IRIS : Ricerche di Cultura Europea = Forschungen zur Europäischen Kultur, 28
• País: Suiza
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-3-0343-1452-7, 978-3-0351-0723-4, 978-3-0351-9827-0, 978-3-0351-9828-7
• Recoge los contenidos presentados a: Conference "Imperial Alexandria : Interactions between Science, Religion and Literature" (1. 2011. Salamanca).
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Resumen

• This book is the outcome of the conference «Imperial Alexandria: Interactions between Science, Religion and Literature», held at Salamanca University in October 2011. The conference convened a group of experts from different fields to address the interrelationship between Science, Religion and Literature in the Graeco-Roman world during the Imperial Period, and especially in Alexandria, situating it within the context of the long tradition of knowledge that had been consolidating itself in this city, above all during the Hellenistic era. The encounter’s main aim was to create a forum for interdisciplinary reflection on «the Alexandrian model» of knowledge in the Imperial Period and its background, being attended by philologists and historians specialising in different types of texts (literary, scientific and religious), whose study requires an interdisciplinary approach, with priority being given to the notion of contact and the relationship between these subjects in order to gain a better understanding of the spirit, way of thinking and moral values of a particularly important era in the development of ancient culture.

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Listado de artículos

• • Mathematics & Religion in Ancient Greece and Medieval Islam

    John Lennart Berggren

    págs. 10-34

    

  • Mechanics and Imagination in Ancient Greek Astronomy: "Sphairopoiïa" as Image and Tool

    James Evans

    págs. 35-72

    

  • Alexandrian Astronomy in the 2nd Century AD: Ptolemy and his Times

    Anne Tihon

    págs. 73-91

    

  • Note on a passage of the Arabic translation of Ptolemy's "Planetary Hypotheses"

    Sébastien Moureau

    págs. 93-95

    

  • Isis, Sarapis, Cyrus and John: Between Healing Gods and Thaumaturgical Saints

    Laurent Bricault

    págs. 97-114

    

  • The Song of Orpheus in the "Argonautica" and the Theogonic Library of Apollonius

    Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez

    págs. 115-140

    

  • Paradox and the Marvellous in Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period

    Luis Arturo Guichard Romero

    págs. 141-156

    

  • Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome: the case of Dionysius' "Periegesis of the Known World"

    J.L. Lightfoot

    págs. 157-174

    

  • Lucian's "Podagra", Asclepius and Galen: The popularisation of medicine in the second century AD

    María Paz de Hoz García-Bellido

    págs. 175-210

    

  • Christian Paideia in Early Imperial Alexandria

    Clelia Martínez Maza

    págs. 211-231

    

  • "When I scan the circling spirals of the stars, so longer do I touch earth with my feet"

    Juan Luis García Alonso

    págs. 233-244

    

  • Nonnus’ natural histories: anything to do with Dionysus?

    Laura Miguélez Cavero

    • Texto completo

    págs. 245-286

    

  • Greek Poetry in Late Antique Alexandria: between Culture and Religion

    Gianfranco Agosti

    págs. 287-312