دانلود کتاب The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy

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Cover
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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
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Part I The Moon in the Mythic Imagination
Introduction: To the Moon! Journey into the Ancient Scientific Imagination
Chapter 1 The Moon in Ritual, Myth and Magic
The Moon and Time, Ritual, Religion
Selene and Endymion: Desire and the Female Gaze
Lunar Liquid: The Moon-Womb and Proto-philosophy
Moon-Illusions
Simaetha\'s Love-Spell: Magic, Lamps and the Moon
The \'Thessalian Trick\': Magic, Mirrors and the Moon
The Marriage of Selene and Endymion
Conclusion
Part II The Moon in the Scientific Imagination
Chapter 2 Making Sense of the Moon: Philosophy and Science
What Is the Moon? The Lunar Artefact
The Lunar Laboratory: Change and Epistemology
Heliophotism and the Reflecting Eye
The Moon Becomes a World
Metaphysical Moon: The Old Academy and Pythagoreans
Xenocrates, Philip and the Moon in the Middle
The Moon in the Pythagorean Cosmos
Eschatological Moon
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Life on the Moon: Between Philosophy, Science and Fantasy
Pythagorean Moon-Creatures
The Woman Who Fell to Earth: Helen of Troy
The Nemean Lion and Other Lunar Creatures
Conclusion: The Question of Belief
Chapter 4 The Moon of Many Faces: Plutarch\'s Great Lunar Dialogue De Facie
Plutarch\'s De Facie and the Duel of the Philosophies
Plutarch\'s Inter-disciplinary Moon
The Lunar Texture of De Facie
Theon, Lamprias and Life on the Moon
Sulla\'s Myth: The Moon as Metaphysical Junction
Literary Coordinates and a Map to the Moon
Conclusion: A Landmark in the Selenographical Tradition
Part III The Moon in the Fantastic Imagination
Chapter 5 The Imaginary Moon: Lunar Journeys
The First Man to Go to the Moon? The Dream Hoax in Varro\'s Endymiones
From Thule to the Moon: Antonius Diogenes\'s Scientific Fiction
Astro-poetics: Icaromenippus, the Moon and Lucianic Mixis
Disintegration, Dissent and Creative Hybridity: Lucian\'s Moon as \'Third Space\'
Lucian\'s Scientific Imagination: Cosmic War, Lunar Anatomy and a Proto-telescope
Conclusion: Scientific Fiction and the Moon
Chapter 6 Selenoskopia: The Moon-View from Fiction to Reality
Lucian, Icaromenippus and the Ancient Telescopic Tradition
Modern Selenoskopic Tradition: The First Wave 1966-1972
The Second Wave: Pale Blue Dot and The Day the Earth Smiled
Conclusion: Between Entanglement and Detachment
Envoi: The Legacy of Ancient Selenography
Bibliography
Index
Index Locorum