Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy
Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy

Author: Ricardo Salles

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-10

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1108836577

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Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

Law's Cosmos
Law's Cosmos

Author: Victoria Wohl

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-07

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1139483714

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Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law has lost its connection to poetic language, narrative, and imagination. But modern legal scholarship has paid little attention to the actual juridical discourse of ancient Greece. This book rectifies that neglect through an analysis of the courtroom speeches from classical Athens, texts situated precisely at the intersection between law and literature. Reading these texts for their subtle literary qualities and their sophisticated legal philosophy, it proposes that in Athens' juridical discourse literary form and legal matter are inseparable. Through its distinctive focus on the literary form of Athenian forensic oratory, Law's Cosmos aims to shed new light on its juridical thought, and thus to change the way classicists read forensic oratory and legal historians view Athenian law.

Cosmic Order and Divine Power
Cosmic Order and Divine Power

Author: Johan C. Thom

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9783161528095

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The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

Cosmos in the Ancient World
Cosmos in the Ancient World

Author: Phillip Sidney Horky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1108423647

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Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

On the Heavens
On the Heavens

Author: Aristotle

Publisher: Aeterna Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle’s chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world. It should not be confused with the spurious work On the Universe (De mundo, also known as On the Cosmos).

Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament

Author: John H. Walton

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1493414364

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Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.