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Main Author:	Williams, Gareth ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Latin
Published:	Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2012
Subjects:	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus > ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D > Naturales quaestiones Seneca, Lucius Annaeus > Philosophus > -65 > Naturales quaestiones Science, Ancient > Historiography Meteorology > Historiography
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Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	XI, 392 S.
ISBN:	9780199731589

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adam_text	IMAGE 1 PREFAEE ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION CONTENTS VII XIII 1. INTERIORITY AND COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE NATURAL QUESTIONS 17 I. SENECA STOTALIZING WORLDVIEW 17 II. THE SENECAN WORLDVIEW DEFINED BY CONTRAST WITH CICERO 21 III. INTERIORIZATION IN THE PREFACE TO BOOK 3 29 IV. THE DIFFERING WORLD OUCLOOKS OF SENECA AND PLINY 37 V. THE NATURAL QUESTIONS IN SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT 48 2. SENECAS MORALIZING INTERLUDES 54 I. THE PROBLEM 54 II. HOSTIUS ~ADRA AS THE ANTI-SAPIENS 55 III. THE UNIFIED WORLD AS DRAWN IN BOOKS LAND LL-II 60 IV. HOSTIUS ~ADRA AND SENECAS INTERLOCUTOR IN BOOK I 67 V. OFSUBTERRANEAN FISH AND DEGENERATE DINERS IN 3.17-18 75 VI. FURTHER TRANSGRESSIONS IN 5.15AND 7.31-32 80 VII. THE TEXTUAL CONTAINMENT OFVICE 87 3. THE CATACLYSM AND THE NILE 93 I. INTRODUCTION 93 11. THE VICE OFFLATTERY 95 III. LUCILIUS IN THE PREFACE 102 IV. THE CATACLYSM OF 3.27-30 IIO V. INTO EGYPT II6 VI. THE NILE, THE CATACLYSM AND OVID 124 VII. THE MISSING LINK, AND OTHER THEORIES OF THE NILE FLOOD 132 IMAGE 2 X CONTENTS 4 THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE 136 I. INTRODUCTION 136 11. 4B.13 IN CONTEXT 137 11I. THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE 144 IV. STRATEGIES OF ARGUMENT IN 4B.3-7 149 A. RELIANCE ON INFL.UENTIALAUTHORITY ISO B. ARGUMENT BY ANALOGY IS3 C. ARGUMENT BY BOLD INFERENCE ISS D. COMPETING ARGUMENTS IS7 E. SUPERSTITION IN CONTENTION WITH REASON 160 V. THE BETTER ARGUMENT 162 VI. BOOK 4B IN CONTEXT 168 S SENECA ON WINDS 171 I. INTRODUCTION 171 11. PRE-STOIC AND STOIC THEORIES OFWIND 174 11I. SENECAS TYPOLOGY OFWINDS 183 IV. MAPPING THE WINDS 193 A. THE CARDINAL WINDS IN OVID 193 B. THE VARRONIAN COMPASS CARD 19S C. THE TWELVE SECTORS 200 D. LOCAL WINDS 200 V. WIND DIRECTION, HUMAN MISDIRECTION 202 VI. THE ROMAN DIMENSION 209 6. EARTHQUAKES, CONSOLATION AND THE SENECAN SUBLIME 213 I. INTRODUCTION 213 11. CONSOLATORY AMPLIFICATION BEFORE REDUCTION 21S 11I. SUBLIME SUPERIORITY OVER NATURE 219 IV. THE TWO VERSE ~OTATIONS AT 6.2.1-3 AND 6.2.9 226 V. CONTROLLING NATURE IN THE SENECAN INVENTORY (6 4-26) 230 A. TAKING STOCK OFEARLIER SEISMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION 231 B. FROM SIGHT TO INSIGHT 232 C. FROM ANALOGICAL INFERENCE TO ABSTRACT SPECULATION 237 D. THE LIVING COSMOS 241 E. ELEMENTAL INTERCHANGEABILITY REVISITED 246 F. THE NORMALIZATION OFSEISMIC EXPERIENCE 247 IMAGE 3 CONUNRR RI VI. THE TOTUM IN BOOK 6 251 VII. THE CARNPANIAN EARTHQUAKE IN PERSPECTIVE 255 7. SENECA ON CORNETS AND ANCIENT CORNETARY THEORY 258 I. INTRODUCTION 258 11. SENECA ON PROGRESS, ON HOSTIUS ~ADRA AND ON NATURE S MYSTERIES 263 111. SUB- AND SUPRALUNARY INTERPRETATION OFCORNETS 273 IV. THE WHIRLWIND THEORY 278 V. THE OPTICAL ILLUSION THEORY 281 VI. THE PLANETARY THEORY 286 VII. THE SENECAN THEORY 289 8. SENECA ON LIGHTNING AND DIVINATION 295 I. INTRODUCTION 295 11. COORDINATION BETWEEN 2.12-30 AND 2.54-58 299 III. THE TOTALIZING WORLDVIEW: STRATEGIES OFUNIFICATION IN 2.1, 2.12-30 AND 2.54-58 303 A. 2.1-11 304 B. 2.12-30 AND 2.54-58 306 C. 2.32-51 312 IV. SENECA ON DIVINATION IN 2.32-51 314 A. RECONCILING PRAYER AND EXPIATION WITH A DETERRNINISTIC VIEW OFFATE (2.35-38) 319 B. THE SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION OFLIGHTNING (2.39-40) 324 C. SENECA S RATIONALIZATION OFETRUSCAN BELIEF(2.42-46) 328 D. CAECINA AND ATTALUS (2.48.2-50) 330 I V. TAKING STOCK 332 EPILOGUE 335 BIBLIOGRAPHY 34 1 INDEX OFPASSAGES 371 GENERALINDEX 380 INDEX OFLATIN WORDS 391 INDEX OFGREEK WORDS 393
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