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Meteorology Beyond Borders
Ancient and Modern Reflections
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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.
Giouli Korobili (Ph.D. Berlin 2018) is an Adjunct Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ioannina (Greece). She has published on ancient natural philosophy (notably Aristotle) and science including medicine. As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow she conducted the Geoanatomy project (Utrecht 2020-2023).
Teun Tieleman (Ph.D. Utrecht 1992) is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at Utrecht University. He has published on Galen and Stoicism among other subjects. He is President of OIKOS, the Netherlands school of classical studies.
Teun Tieleman (Ph.D. Utrecht 1992) is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at Utrecht University. He has published on Galen and Stoicism among other subjects. He is President of OIKOS, the Netherlands school of classical studies.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
âGeneral Introduction
âGiouli Korobili and Teun Tieleman
1 Modern Astronomy
âSusanne M. Hoffmann
2 Modern Meteorology
âGarry Toth
3 And Now for the Weather: Reflections and Research
âLiba Taub
Part 1 Early-Classical and Classical Meteorology
4 Uncertain Disaster: the Paean as Response to Meteorological Signs
âMichiel van Veldhuizen
â5âWind, Lightning and Disturbance in Sophoclesâ Ajax and Antigone âDanchen Zhang
6 Meteorology as a Prefiguration of Life in Aristotle
âMalcolm 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
âRobert Mayhew
8 Kata chronous paradoxa: Meteorological Wondrous Phenomena in Hellenistic Paradoxography
âDimitra Eleftheriou
â9âHeavenly Dreams: Meteorological Elements in Oneirocritica âTyson Sukava
10 The Adoption of Demeter and Kore by the Carthaginians in 396 BCE: a Climatological Perspective
âAndrew Hill
11 Greek Echoes of Late Babylonian Astrometeorology
âCristian Tolsa
12 Can the Meteorology of Posidonius Be Called âScienceâ?
âJ. J. Hall
Part 3 (Greco-)Roman Meteorology
13 Lightning, Legitimacy, & Roman Political Power: from Myth to History and Back (3rdâ1st c. BCE)
âVanda Strachan
â14âWeather Predictions in Lucanâs Bellum Civile âAnne-Sophie Meyer
â15âDriving Winds and Wind-Driven Meteora in Valerius Flaccusâs Argonautica (with an Excursus on Lucretius)
âDarcy Krasne
16 Volcanology within Ancient Meteorology: Some Epistemological Issues
âFrédéric Le Blay
17 (Astro)Meteorology as a Tool for Medical Prognosis: Galen on Disease Forecasting
âKonstantinos Stefou
18 Floods and Fires: a Treacherous Journey to Gaul
âFrances Foster
Part 4 Late Antique and Medieval Meteorology
19 A Stratified World: Avicennaâs Model of the Sublunary Strata
âColin Fitzpatrick Murtha
â20âAristotle as Meteorological Authority in the Hellenistic Commentary on Hesiodâs Theogony Preserved in the Allegories by Johannes Galenus Deacon
âAndrea 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 âScienceâ
âPaul Ziche
22 Between Aristotle and Alexander von Humboldt: the Transformations of Meteorology
âRienk Vermij
Glossary
âSusanne M. Hoffmann and Garry Toth
Index of Passages
General Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
âGeneral Introduction
âGiouli Korobili and Teun Tieleman
1 Modern Astronomy
âSusanne M. Hoffmann
2 Modern Meteorology
âGarry Toth
3 And Now for the Weather: Reflections and Research
âLiba Taub
Part 1 Early-Classical and Classical Meteorology
4 Uncertain Disaster: the Paean as Response to Meteorological Signs
âMichiel van Veldhuizen
â5âWind, Lightning and Disturbance in Sophoclesâ Ajax and Antigone âDanchen Zhang
6 Meteorology as a Prefiguration of Life in Aristotle
âMalcolm 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
âRobert Mayhew
8 Kata chronous paradoxa: Meteorological Wondrous Phenomena in Hellenistic Paradoxography
âDimitra Eleftheriou
â9âHeavenly Dreams: Meteorological Elements in Oneirocritica âTyson Sukava
10 The Adoption of Demeter and Kore by the Carthaginians in 396 BCE: a Climatological Perspective
âAndrew Hill
11 Greek Echoes of Late Babylonian Astrometeorology
âCristian Tolsa
12 Can the Meteorology of Posidonius Be Called âScienceâ?
âJ. J. Hall
Part 3 (Greco-)Roman Meteorology
13 Lightning, Legitimacy, & Roman Political Power: from Myth to History and Back (3rdâ1st c. BCE)
âVanda Strachan
â14âWeather Predictions in Lucanâs Bellum Civile âAnne-Sophie Meyer
â15âDriving Winds and Wind-Driven Meteora in Valerius Flaccusâs Argonautica (with an Excursus on Lucretius)
âDarcy Krasne
16 Volcanology within Ancient Meteorology: Some Epistemological Issues
âFrédéric Le Blay
17 (Astro)Meteorology as a Tool for Medical Prognosis: Galen on Disease Forecasting
âKonstantinos Stefou
18 Floods and Fires: a Treacherous Journey to Gaul
âFrances Foster
Part 4 Late Antique and Medieval Meteorology
19 A Stratified World: Avicennaâs Model of the Sublunary Strata
âColin Fitzpatrick Murtha
â20âAristotle as Meteorological Authority in the Hellenistic Commentary on Hesiodâs Theogony Preserved in the Allegories by Johannes Galenus Deacon
âAndrea 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 âScienceâ
âPaul Ziche
22 Between Aristotle and Alexander von Humboldt: the Transformations of Meteorology
âRienk Vermij
Glossary
âSusanne M. Hoffmann and Garry Toth
Index of Passages
General Index
This volume is of interest to historians and philosophers of science, students of Graeco-Roman society and culture including literature and of the reception of ancient ideas concerning the weather and the natural world