[9789004500433 - Inventing Origins_ Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity] Inventing Origins_ Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity.pdf

• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2022

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...