: Interactions Between Science, Religion, and Literature
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Luis Arturo Guichard, Juan Luis García Alonso & María Paz de Hoz (eds.)
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Peter Lang
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, [2014]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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324 p.
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:ill.
SERIES
Series Title
Ricerche di cultura europea = Forschungen zur europäischen Kultur,
Volume Designation
; Band 28
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
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Bibliography
CONTENTS NOTE
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Mathematics & religion in ancient Greece and medieval Islam / John Lennart Berggren -- Mechanics and imagination in ancient Greek astronomy : Sphairopoiïa as image and tool / James Evans -- Alexandrian astronomy in the 2nd century AD : Ptolemy and his times / Anne Tihon -- Note on a passage of the Arabic translation of Ptolemy's Planetary hypotheses / Sébastien Moureau -- Isis, Sarapis, Cyrus and John : between healing gods and thaumaturgical saints / Laurent Bricault -- The Song of Orpheus in the Argonautica and the Theogonic Library of Apollonius / Marco Antonio Santamaría -- Paradox and the marvellous in Greek poetry of the imperial period / Luis Arturo Guichard -- Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome : the case of Dionysius' Periegesis of the known world / Jane Lucy Lightfoot -- Lucian's Podagra, Asclepius and Galen : the popularisation of medicine in the second century AD / María Paz de Hoz -- Christian paideia in early imperial Alexandria / Clelia Martínez Maza -- "When I scan the circling spirals of the stars, no longer do I touch earth with my feet" / Juan Luis García Alonso -- Nonnus' natural histories : anything to do with Dionysus? / Laura Miguélez-Cavero -- Greek poetry in late antique Alexandria : between culture and religion / Gianfranco Agosti.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Learning and scholarship-- Egypt-- Alexandria-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
Religion and science-- Egypt-- Alexandria-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
Religion and literature-- Egypt-- Alexandria-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
Religion and science-- Mediterranean Region-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
Religion and literature-- Mediterranean Region-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.