Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity /

Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a too...

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Other Authors: Wessels, Antje (Editor), Klooster, Jacqueline (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2022.

Series: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 2.

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Education, Ancient.

Education, Greek.

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