Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination

Karen ní Mheallaigh

earliest edition we have, 2020 Cambridge University Press, 2020

"The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its attributes, and its 'inhabitants' given by ancient philosophers, natural scientists and imaginative writers including Pythagoreans, Plato and the Old Ac...

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Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination edition · 2020 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108685726
Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination edition · 2020 · University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations · 9781108664509
Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination edition · 2020 · University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations · 322 pages · 9781108483032

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