Natural questions
Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) devotes most of Naturales Quaestiones to celestial phenomena. In Book 1 he discusses fires in the atmosphere; in 2, lightning and thunder; in 3, bodies of water. Seneca's method is to survey the theories of major authorities on the subject at hand, so his work is a guide to...
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| Language: | English Latin |
| Series: | Loeb classical library ;
450, 457. |
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| Summary: | Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) devotes most of Naturales Quaestiones to celestial phenomena. In Book 1 he discusses fires in the atmosphere; in 2, lightning and thunder; in 3, bodies of water. Seneca's method is to survey the theories of major authorities on the subject at hand, so his work is a guide to Greek and Roman thinking about the heavens. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : diagrams. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Published: |
Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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