Aetna and the Moon

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  • Aetna and the Moon Book Detail

  • Author : Liba Chaia Taub
  • Release Date : 2008
  • Publisher : OSU Press Horning Visiting Sch
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 160
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 2,2 MB
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Aetna and the Moon by Liba Chaia Taub PDF Summary

Book Description: Classical authors used both prose and poetry to explore and explain the natural world. In Aetna and the Moon, Liba Taub examines the variety of ways in which ancient Greeks and Romans conveyed scientific information. In ancient Greece and Rome, most of the technical literature on scientific, mathematical, technological, and medical subjects was written in prose, as it is today. However, Greek and Roman poets produced a significant number of widely read poems that dealt with scientific topics. Why would an author choose poetry to explain the natural world? This question is complicated by claims made, since antiquity, that the growth of rational explanation involved the abandonment of poetry and the rejection of myth in favor of science. Taub uses two texts to explore how scientific ideas were disseminated in the ancient world. The anonymous author of the Latin Aetna poem explained the science behind the volcano Etna with poetry. The Greek author Plutarch juxtaposed scientific and mythic explanations in his dialogue On the Face on the Moon. Both texts provide a lens through which Taub considers the nature of scientific communication in ancient Greece and Rome. --From publisher's description.

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