Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Euhormos: Greco-roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation)

Wessels, Antje (EDT)/ Klooster, Jacqueline (EDT)

Brill（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 222 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004500143
• DDC分類 880

Full Description

Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation.

Contents

Introduction: Inventing Anchors? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity

 Antje Wessels and Jacqueline Klooster

PART 1: Aetiological Thinking. Old & New. From Present to Past to Future

1 Anchoring Innovations through Aetiology

 Annette Harder

2 The Parallels between Aetiology and Prophecy in Ancient Literature. Hindsight as Foresight Makes Sense

 Jacqueline Klooster

PART 2: Aetiology and Politics

3 Veterem atque antiquam rem novam ad vos proferam. A New Drama, a Surprised Audience, and a 'Live Aetiology'. Performing the Origin of the Amphitruo

 Andrea de March

4 Callimachus Romanus. Propertius' Love Elegy and the Aetiology of Empire

 Alexander Kirichenko

5 The Origins of Rome in the Renaissance. Revival & Reinvention, Rejection & Replacement

 Susanna de Beer

PART 3: Aetiology in Myth and Science. From Religion to Research

6 Resistance to Origins. Cult Foundation in the Myths of Dionysus, Apollo, and Demeter

 Susanne Gödde

7 Beginning with Hermes: Promoting Hermeticism through Aetiology in Corpus Hermeticum 1

 Sean E. McGrath

8 The Aetiology of Myth

 Hugo Koning

9 Patroclus Was a Parasite. Lucian's Satirical Aitia

 Inger N.I. Kuin

10 Crossing Borders. Aetiological Overlap in Plutarch's Collections of Questions

 Michiel Meeusen

Index