The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious my

"The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious m

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to ancient Mediterranean philosophy, designed specifically for use by undergraduate students.

"Themistius ran his own philosophical school in Constantinople in the middle of the fourth century A.D. His paraphrases of Aristotle's writings are unlike the e

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