Open AccessMeteorología clásica en imágenes de la última época de la Antigüedad, ilustrada con ejemplos sacados de Gregorio Nacianceno
Author(s) -
Manfred Kertsch
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1980.v48.i1.841
Subject(s) - philosophy , humanities , period (music) , classical period , literature , art , aesthetics
Using the imagery of Gregory of Nazianzus as starting point, the author tries to show that the doxographical example in Gregory’s Second Theological Oration (Or. XXVIII 26, PG 36, 61 C-64A), in combination with several other similar specimina, furnished by late Antiquity, may help resolve the problem raised by Quidam existimant at Seneca, Natur. quaest. III 24, 4. Who is meant here by quidam? In the author’s opinion: primarily Posidonius. In addition, this paper stresses the general significance and usefulness of late doxographical texts for reconstructing some details of the lost physical Science of the classical period