LEADER 05940nam 2200577 i 4500001 ssj0002061675 003 WaSeSS 005 20190712081240.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 180213s2018 gw sb 001 0 eng d 010 2018934497 020 9783110530469 020 |z9783110563559 (PDF) 020 |z9783110562613 (E-PUB) 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0002061675 040 YDX |beng |cYDX |dBTCTA |dEZ9 |dOHX |dYDX |dOCLCO |dCOO |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dERASA |dDLC |dWaSeSS 042 lccopycat 049 EREENEHH 050 00 PA3015.M57 |bR43 2018 082 00 880.09 |223 084 930 |2sdnb |qDE-101 245 00 Recognizing miracles in antiquity and beyond |h[electronic resource] / |cedited by Maria Gerolemou. 260 Berlin : |bWalter de Gruyter, |c2018. 300 xx, 430 pages ; |c24 cm. 490 1 Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, |x1868-4785 ; |vvolume 53 500 "This volume is largely the product of a conference held at the University of Cyprus in October 2014"--Introduction. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |tIntroduction: In search of the Miraculous / |rGerolemou, Maria -- |tI. Miracles -- |tCtesias' Indica and the Origins of Paradoxography / |rNichols, Andrew -- |tThe Epidaurian Iamata: The first "Court of Miracles"? / |rPrêtre, Clarisse -- |tMedicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond / |rKazantzidis, George -- |t'One might rightly wonder' - marvelling in Polybios Histories / |rHau, Lisa Irene -- |tOmens and Miracles: Interpreting Miraculous Narratives in Roman Historiography / |rPapaioannou, Sophia -- |tMiracles and Pseudo-Miracles in Byzantine Apocalypses / |rKraft, András -- |tII. Workings of Miracles -- |tWonder-ful Memories in Herodotus' Histories / |rGerolemou, Maria -- |tWonder(s) in Plautus / |rDemetriou, Chrysanthi -- |tTelling Tales of Wonder: Mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger / |rNeger, Margot -- |tParadoxographic discourse on sources and fountains: deconstructing paradoxes / |rDelattre, Charles -- |tLucian's Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder / |rMheallaigh, Karen ní -- |tIII. Believing in Miracles -- |tPerceiving Thauma in Archaic Greek Epic / |rHunzinger, Christine -- |tTurning Science into Miracle in the Voyage of Alexander the Great / |rPajón Leyra, Irene -- |t'Many are the wonders in Greece': Pausanias the wandering philosopher / |rLangerwerf, Lydia -- |tMiracles in Greek Biography / |rTsakmakis, Antonis -- |tApuleius on Raising the Dead Crossing the Boundaries of Life and Death while Convincing the Audience / |rMay, Regine -- |tRecognizing Miracles in ancient Greek Novels / |rLateiner, Donald -- |tList of Contributors -- |tIndex Nominum et Rerum 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 8 In recent years, scholars have extensively explored the function of the miraculous and wondrous in ancient narratives, mostly pondering on how ancient authors view wondrous accounts, i.e. the treatment of the descriptions of wondrous occurrences as true events or their use. More precisely, these narratives investigate whether the wondrous pursues a display of erudition or merely provides stylistic variety; sometimes, such narratives even represent the wish of the author to grant a ?rational explanation? to extraordinary actions. At present, however, two aspects of the topic have not been fully examined: a) the ability of the wondrous/miraculous to set cognitive mechanisms in motion and b) the power of the wondrous/miraculous to contribute to the construction of an authorial identity (that of kings, gods, or narrators). To this extent, the volume approaches miracles and wonders as counter intuitive phenomena, beyond cognitive grasp, which challenge the authenticity of human experience and knowledge and push forward the frontiers of intellectual and aesthetic experience. Some of the articles of the volume examine miracles on the basis of bewilderment that could lead to new factual knowledge; the supernatural is here registered as something natural (although strange); the rest of the articles treat miracles as an endpoint, where human knowledge stops and the unknown divine begins (here the supernatural is confirmed). Thence, questions like whether the experience of a miracle or wonder as a counter intuitive phenomenon could be part of long-term memory, i.e. if miracles could be transformed into solid knowledge and what mental functions are encompassed in this process, are central in the discussion. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 650 0 Miracles in literature |vCongresses. |=^A290611 650 0 Supernatural in literature |vCongresses. |=^A40048 650 0 Classical literature |xThemes, motives |vCongresses. |=^A52065 650 7 Classical literature |xThemes, motives. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00863524 650 7 Miracles in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01023549 650 7 Supernatural in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01138966 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 700 1 Gerolemou, Maria. |?UNAUTHORIZED 830 0 Trends in classics. 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