The scientific sublime in imperial Rome : Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna / Patrick Glauthier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glauthier, Patrick, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manilius, Marcus. Astronomicon.

Manilius, Marcus.

Lucan, 39-65. Pharsalia.

Lucan.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Naturales quaestiones.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.

Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.

Pliny.

Aetna.

Natural history--Rome.

Natural history.

Human ecology--Rome--History.

Human ecology.

Sublime, The--History.

Sublime, The.

Rome--History.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome' charts the significance of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. By connecting Manilius' 'Astronomica', Seneca's 'Natural Questions', Lucan's 'Civil War', and the anonymous Aetna for the first time, it tells a new story about the study of nature at Rome, locates the sublimity of that study at the centre of early imperial Latin literature, and thereby renders the classical sublime more expansive, dynamic, and contested.

Contents:

Locating the scientific sublime

Manilius and the aesthetics of the infinite

Seneca's natural questions : the promise and danger of the sublime

Lucan : natural inquiry in a time of Civil War

Aetna and the wonders of the Earth

Epilogue : the scientific sublime and the case of the Elder Pliny.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 8, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197787588

0197787584

9780197787571

0197787576

9780197787564

0197787568

OCLC:

1467720026