Manilius and his Intellectual Background
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199265224
ISBN-13
9780199265220
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 12th, 2009
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
533 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.60 x 2.20 cms
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Literary studies: classical, early & medievalLiterary studies: poetry & poets
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The first English-language monograph on Marcus Manilius, a Roman poet of the first century AD, whose Astronomica is our earliest extant comprehensive treatment of astrology. Katharina Volk brings Manilius and his world alive for modern readers by exploring the manifold intellectual traditions that shaped his work.
This is the first English-language monograph on Marcus Manilius, a Roman poet of the first century AD, whose Astronomica is our earliest extant comprehensive treatment of astrology. Katharina Volk brings Manilius and his world alive for modern readers by exploring the manifold intellectual traditions that have gone into shaping the Astronomica: ancient astronomy and cosmology, the history and practice of astrology, the historical and political situation at the poem''s composition, the poetic and generic conventions that inform it, and the philosophical underpinnings of Manilius'' world-view. What emerges is a panoroma of the cultural imagination of the Early Empire, a fascinating picture of the ways in which educated Greeks and Romans were accustomed to think and speak about the cosmos and man''s place in it.
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