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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| description | 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 tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-906702025-08-13T13:42:57Z Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity Wessels, A.B. Klooster, J.J.H. aetiological; Greek; Roman; Antiquity; etiologisch; Grieks; Romeins thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History 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 tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation. 2022-08-03T05:54:47Z 2022-08-03T05:54:47Z 2022-08-02T11:28:38Z 2022 book OCN: 1287747245 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57714 9789004500143 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90670 eng Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation open access Brill 10.1163/9789004500433 10.1163/9789004500433 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789004500143 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 228 024.003.012 open access |
| spellingShingle | aetiological; Greek; Roman; Antiquity; etiologisch; Grieks; Romeins thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity |
| title | Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity |
| title_full | Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity |
| title_fullStr | Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity |
| title_short | Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity |
| title_sort | inventing origins aetiological thinking in greek and roman antiquity |
| topic | aetiological; Greek; Roman; Antiquity; etiologisch; Grieks; Romeins thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History |
| topic_facet | aetiological; Greek; Roman; Antiquity; etiologisch; Grieks; Romeins thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History |
| url | OCN: 1287747245 |