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The Legacy of Ancient Selenography

from Part III - The Moon in the Fantastic Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2020

Karen ní Mheallaigh
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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In the Introduction to the book, I promised a symphonic story of lunar thought. I hope, by now, that the reader has come to hear the interconnected harmonies of ancient selenography: how ideas about the Moon as a goddess resurface in the fantastical, querulous Moon of Lucian’s Icaromenippus; how beliefs about the Moon’s moisture and liquescence swell, in Lucian’s hands, into a world of corporeal and political viscosity; how the Moon’s ancient anthropomorphization as a goddess becomes rationalized, in Plutarch’s work, into connections with birth and death; and how the ancient ocular intensity of the Moon makes it into a site for visual science and fantasy.

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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy
, pp. 291 - 294
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Karen ní Mheallaigh, University of Exeter
  • Book: The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
  • Online publication: 09 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685726.008
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  • Karen ní Mheallaigh, University of Exeter
  • Book: The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
  • Online publication: 09 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685726.008
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  • Envoi
  • Karen ní Mheallaigh, University of Exeter
  • Book: The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
  • Online publication: 09 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685726.008
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