Book contents
- The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations, Text References and Translations
- Part I The Moon in the Mythic Imagination
- Part II The Moon in the Scientific Imagination
- Chapter 2 Making Sense of the Moon
- Chapter 3 Life on the Moon
- Chapter 4 The Moon of Many Faces
- Part III The Moon in the Fantastic Imagination
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index Locorum
Chapter 2 - Making Sense of the Moon
Philosophy and Science
from Part II - The Moon in the Scientific Imagination
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2020
Book contents
- The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations, Text References and Translations
- Part I The Moon in the Mythic Imagination
- Part II The Moon in the Scientific Imagination
- Chapter 2 Making Sense of the Moon
- Chapter 3 Life on the Moon
- Chapter 4 The Moon of Many Faces
- Part III The Moon in the Fantastic Imagination
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index Locorum
Summary
As we saw in the previous chapter, there is abundant evidence from the Archaic period onwards for the belief that the Moon was physically entangled with terrestrial phenomena such as dew and vegetation, as well as with women’s reproductive lives. In this chapter, I make a case for the Moon’s increasing entanglement in a less concrete sense: in the Greeks’ intellectual history.
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- The Moon in the Greek and Roman ImaginationMyth, Literature, Science and Philosophy, pp. 51 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020