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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Language: English
Published:
Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2022.
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Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ;
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Call Number: LA71