Forgotten Stars

Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Av Steven J. Green, Katharina Volk, University of Leeds) Green, Steven J. (Senior Lecturer in Classics, Columbia University) Volk, Katharina (Associate Professor of Classics

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The Astronomica of Manilius is a poem in five books, at least partly written under the Emperor Augustus, which purports to teach the reader the art of astrology and the means by which an accurate horoscope may be cast. It is, therefore, a text from the classical age of Roman literature which deals with a topic to whose enduring popular interest any daily Western newspaper will testify. And yet, despite some notable modern exceptions, the infamously harsh verdict of Manilius' most ardent modern critic, A. E. Housman, continues to cast an imposing shadow on the poem. Forgotten Stars seeks to lift this shadow once and for all, as it brings together an international contingent of scholars to analyse this dynamic poem from a variety of perspectives. Matters of literary interest are complemented by approaches which assess the work's socio-political, philosophical, scientific, and astrological resonance, as well as its influence on later Renaissance writers.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-03-24
Mått161 x 222 x 25 mm
Vikt578 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor364
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199586462

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1. Introduction: A century of Manilian scholarship ; I. INTELLECTUAL AND SCIENTIFIC BACKDROP ; 2. More sentiment than science: Roman stargazing before and after Manilius ; 3. Manilius' conflicted Stoicism ; 4. Myth and explanation in Manilius ; II. INTEGRITY AND CONSISTENCY ; 5. Watch this space (getting round book 1: 215-46) ; 6. On two Stoic 'paradoxes' in Manilius ; 7. Manilian self-contradiction ; 8. Arduum ad astra: The poetics and politics of horoscopic failure in Manilius' Astronomica ; III. METAPHORS ; 9. Tropes and figures: Manilian style as a reflection of astrological tradition ; 10. Sums in verse or a mathematical aesthetic? ; 11. Census and commercium: Two economic metaphors in Manilius ; IV. DIDACTIC DIGRESSIONS ; 12. Digressions, intertextuality, and ideology in didactic poetry: The case of Manilius ; 13. Cosmos and imperium: Politicized digressions in Manilius' Astronomica ; 14. A song from the universal chorus: The Perseus and Andromeda epyllion ; V. RECEPTION ; 15. Augustus, Manilius, and Claudian ; 16. Renaissance reception of Manilius' anthropology ; 17. Lorenzo Bonincontri's reception of Manilius' chapter on comets (Astr. 1.809-926)

This volume can certainly be used to show (to students, for example) how knowledge should not stay fixed and dogmatic and how the different disciplines in classics, such as philosophy, epistemology, and literature, should always have dialogues with one another. I must stress the open-mindedness not only of the editors, but also of the seventeen contributors who are often openly criticized by their fellow contributors to the same volume. This volume is well constructed and easy to use.