| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 355 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Francesco Pelosi and Federico Maria Petrucci -- Scala Naturae and Music : Two Models in Philo's Thought / Carlos Lévy -- Music and Plutarch's Platonic Cosmos / Bram Demulder -- The Harmoniser God. Harmony as a Cosmological Model in Middle Platonist Theology / Federico M. Petrucci -- Alexander of Aphrodisias and Musical Models for Ontological Enquiries / Laura M. Castelli -- How to Resist Musical Dogmatism : the Aim and Methods of Pyrrhonian Inquiry in Sextus Empiricus' 'Against the Musicologists' (Math. VI) / Máté Veres -- Shifting Epistemological Perspectives in Ptolemy's 'Harmonics' : from the Science of Sound to the Study of Music / Andrew Barker -- Musical Imagery in Clement of Alexandria and Origen : the Greek Musical World Revised and Accepted / Francesco Pelosi -- Plotinus on Music, Rhythm, and Harmony / Alexandra Michalewski -- Porphyry's 'Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics' : Questions of Philosophic and Scientific Identity / Harold Tarrant -- The Music of the Virtues in Late Ancient Platonism / Dominic O'Meara -- Harmonics as Theological Paradigm in Proclus / Stephen Gersh -- Calcidius on Cosmic Harmony / Christina Hoenig -- Harmonia in Philoponus' 'Commentary on Nicomachus' Introduction to Arithmetic' / Giovanna R. Giardina |
| Summary |
"In the history of ancient philosophy there is a kind of fascinating black hole between Cicero's last philosophical treatises and the first works of Seneca and Philo. From this period very little has survived via direct transmission. The causes of this silence are multiple and complex. One of them is certainly the Roman civil war, the commune nefas, as the poet Lucan put it. Not only was it a major political trauma, but it had momentous consequences for Roman philosophy. The period before the war was that of Lucretius, Cicero, Cato and many other Romans with profound philosophical interests"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Music -- To 500 -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music and philosophy -- History -- To 500
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Music and philosophy
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Philosophy, Ancient
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pelosi, Francesco, editor.
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Petrucci, Federico M., 1985- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020039513 |
| ISBN |
9781108935753 |
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1108935753 |
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9781108936330 |
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1108936334 |
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9781108936101 |
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1108936105 |
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