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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Langue:anglais
Publié: Brill 2022
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