Meteorology Beyond Borders : Ancient and Modern Reflections / edited by Giouli Korobili, Teun Tieleman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korobili, Giouli, editor.

Tieleman, Teun, editor.

Series:

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ancient Science & Medicine.

Classical Studies.

Classical Tradition & Reception Studies.

Other Title:

Ancient and Modern Reflections

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ancient meteorology was not just about predicting the weather but a broader notion involving the study of phenomena that belong under such disciplines as astronomy and geology today. This collective volume deals with meteorological phenomena in a wide variety of texts from classical antiquity: philosophical and scientific, literary, poetical, historical as well as medical. It takes a special approach in its sustained focus on how ancient authors sought to anchor novel insights into the work of their predecessors, tracing the development of meteorology beyond antiquity well into (early) modern times and adding perspectives from present-day science.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

General Introduction

Giouli Korobili and Teun Tieleman

1 Modern Astronomy

Susanne M. Hoffmann

2 Modern Meteorology

Garry Toth

3 And Now for the Weather: Reflections and Research

Liba Taub

Part 1 Early-Classical and Classical Meteorology

4 Uncertain Disaster: the Paean as Response to Meteorological Signs

Michiel van Veldhuizen

5 Wind, Lightning and Disturbance in Sophocles’ Ajax and Antigone Danchen Zhang

6 Meteorology as a Prefiguration of Life in Aristotle

Malcolm Wilson

Part 2 Hellenistic Meteorology

7 De Signis §§ 13 and 37 and Problemata physica 26.23 in the Context of Peripatetic Meteorology: Shooting Stars as Weather Signs

Robert Mayhew

8 Kata chronous paradoxa : Meteorological Wondrous Phenomena in Hellenistic Paradoxography

Dimitra Eleftheriou

9 Heavenly Dreams: Meteorological Elements in Oneirocritica Tyson Sukava

10 The Adoption of Demeter and Kore by the Carthaginians in 396 BCE: a Climatological Perspective

Andrew Hill

11 Greek Echoes of Late Babylonian Astrometeorology

Cristian Tolsa

12 Can the Meteorology of Posidonius Be Called “Science”?

J. J. Hall

Part 3 (Greco-)Roman Meteorology

13 Lightning, Legitimacy, & Roman Political Power: from Myth to History and Back (3rd–1st c. BCE)

Vanda Strachan

14 Weather Predictions in Lucan’s Bellum Civile Anne-Sophie Meyer

15 Driving Winds and Wind-Driven Meteora in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica (with an Excursus on Lucretius)

Darcy Krasne

16 Volcanology within Ancient Meteorology: Some Epistemological Issues

Frédéric Le Blay

17 (Astro)Meteorology as a Tool for Medical Prognosis: Galen on Disease Forecasting

Konstantinos Stefou

18 Floods and Fires: a Treacherous Journey to Gaul

Frances Foster

Part 4 Late Antique and Medieval Meteorology

19 A Stratified World: Avicenna’s Model of the Sublunary Strata

Colin Fitzpatrick Murtha

20 Aristotle as Meteorological Authority in the Hellenistic Commentary on Hesiod’s Theogony Preserved in the Allegories by Johannes Galenus Deacon

Andrea Filoni

Part 5 Early Modern and Modern Meteorology

21 Meteorology as a Methodological and Aesthetic Device around 1800: towards an Integrative and Open Understanding of “Science”

Paul Ziche

22 Between Aristotle and Alexander von Humboldt: the Transformations of Meteorology

Rienk Vermij

Glossary

Susanne M. Hoffmann and Garry Toth

Index of Passages

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74710-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004747104 DOI