Daryn Lehoux
Biographic Data
| ID | 989800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daryn Lehoux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehoux |
| SIGNATURE | LEHOUX D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2134-5003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pseudo-Aristotle Problem 7.8
The earliest Greek text to explain how disease contagion was understood to work is the pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata . In fact, the fullest causal discussion of contagion in all of Greco-Roman literature is found in Problem 7.8. This Problem has long been a source of consternation, due to its difficult syntax combined with obscurities in its theories of contagion. Through a close reading within its philosophical context and the full history of i…
Science, Roman
Recent work in the history and philosophy of science and the history of philosophy has begun to see Roman approaches to nature and the natural world as significant, independent developments on the work of their Greek predecessors. The new cultural, social, and political contexts of the Republic and Roman Imperial periods are increasingly seen to have developed in dynamic interaction with the changing understandings of the world in which the Roman…
Saved by the phenomena
Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world
Concluding his discussion of bee reproduction in Book 3 of Generation of Animals , Aristotle makes a famous methodological pronouncement about the relationship between sense perception and theory in natural history. In the very next sentence, he casually remarks that the unique method of reproduction that he finds in bees should not be surprising, since bees have something ‘divine’ about them. Although the methodological pronouncement gets a fair…
Let Us Make the Effort
Scientific writing initially came to ancient Latin speakers as a foreign discipline. Greek-language sources, in the form both of written texts and of living speakers, brought a wide range of philosophical, technical, and scientific material to their Latin neighbors from at least the second century b.c.e. The challenge for the Romans, though, was not just one of translating individual texts—of turning Plato’s Timaeus into Latin, for example. Inste…
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Creatures Born of Mud and Slime
Observation Claims and Epistemic Confidence in Aristotle's Biology
This essay looks at the ways in which Aristotle signals his confidence in observation claims in his biological works. Widely seen as an astute observer of the natural world, Aristotle in fact makes surprisingly few explicit claims to personal observation, even if circumstantial and other evidence often provides strong hints of his own involvement. At the same time, because of the incredible variety (and often the localization) of biological speci…
Enclitic Accents, Further Simplified
Enclitic Accents, Further Simplified Daryn Lehoux In 2010, Classical World published an admirable Paedagogus article by Renan Baker suggesting a short and simple pair of rules that could be used for teaching the accentuation of enclitics to beginning students of Greek.1 His rules are clearly easier for the student to remember than the usual multiple paragraphs of intimidating possibilities and exceptions that one finds in introductory grammar tex…
Lucretius
CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1. Piety, labour, and justice in Lucretius and Hesiod 2. The political epistemology of infinity 3. Lucretius, Epicurus, and the Logic of Multiple Explanations 4. Nature, spontaneity, and voluntary action in Lucretius 5. Seeing and unseeing, seen and unseen 6. The poetic logic of negative exceptionalism in Lucretius, book five 7. Lucretius and the Epicurean attitude toward grief 8. Nil igitur mors est ad nosa Iphianas…
Poetry, Philosophy, Science
The volume unites the three aspects--poetry, philosophy, and science--found in Lucretius' 'De rerum natura'. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds--Adapted from the book jacket
Ancient Science in a Digital Age
Technology is rapidly changing our understanding of ancient science. New methods of visualization are bringing to light important texts we could not previously read; changes in online publishing are allowing unprecedented access to difficult-to-find materials; and online mapping tools are offering new pictures of lost spaces, connectivities, and physical objects
Parapegma
Historians of astronomy generally use the term parapegma to describe an astronomical weather calendar such as that found in Pliny, book 18 or Columella, book 12. These literary astrometeorological parapegmata typically (but not always) list dates in a civil calendar and for each significant date described, relevant stellar phases (annual appearances and disappearances of fixed stars), as well as the weather signaled or caused by those phases.
Science, Roman
Not all scholars will be quick to agree that Roman approaches to understanding the natural world can be described as “science” without at least some qualification, nor that those intellectual projects can be straightforwardly understood as Roman, originating as they almost always do in Greek predecessors.
Sympathy and antipathy
Sympathy and antipathy are causal forces used to explain a wide range of phenomena in ancient physics.
Drugs and the Delphic Oracle
This paper critically examines several recent studies purporting to show that the priestesses of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi were intoxicated on gaseous fumes emitted as a result of geological processes. The two gaseous candidates offered, ethylene and benzene, are considered. Ethylene is shown to be impossible and benzene to be crucially underdetermined. Finally, the historical evidence on which any gaseous vent hypothesis must rest is reexam…
Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye
This essay explores the ways in which theories and entities are culturally and intellectually embedded in historical and disciplinary contexts by looking at the development of a set of related theories of perception that emerged in response to contemporary Sceptical criticisms of the very possibility of doing empirical science. At the same time, it attempts to bring into focus a puzzle about precisely how (and how deeply) seeing itself is conditi…
Laws of nature and natural laws
Tomorrow's News Today
By looking in detail at the philosophical and technical intricacies of a set of ancient astrological theories and their treatment of issues of determinism and free will, I show that there are good reasons to question the grounds for a distinction between science and pseudoscience, modern and premodern
Weather, when and why
Observation and prediction in ancient astrology
Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics
All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory
Se proposant de reconstruire la theorie du lieu chez Straton de Lampsacus a partir des versions contradictoires de Simplicius et de Stobee, l'A. defend, contre les interpretations contemporaines de D. Furley et S. Berryman, la these selon laquelle la theorie de la matiere de Straton pose le principe explicatif de l'horreur du vide au fondement de sa theorie des micro-vides. Realisant une rupture avec la position aristotelicienne, et s'inscrivant …
Laws of nature and natural laws
Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye
This essay explores the ways in which theories and entities are culturally and intellectually embedded in historical and disciplinary contexts by looking at the development of a set of related theories of perception that emerged in response to contemporary Sceptical criticisms of the very possibility of doing empirical science. At the same time, it attempts to bring into focus a puzzle about precisely how (and how deeply) seeing itself is conditi…
Observation and prediction in ancient astrology
Saved by the phenomena
Let Us Make the Effort
Scientific writing initially came to ancient Latin speakers as a foreign discipline. Greek-language sources, in the form both of written texts and of living speakers, brought a wide range of philosophical, technical, and scientific material to their Latin neighbors from at least the second century b.c.e. The challenge for the Romans, though, was not just one of translating individual texts—of turning Plato’s Timaeus into Latin, for example. Inste…
Ancient Science in a Digital Age
Technology is rapidly changing our understanding of ancient science. New methods of visualization are bringing to light important texts we could not previously read; changes in online publishing are allowing unprecedented access to difficult-to-find materials; and online mapping tools are offering new pictures of lost spaces, connectivities, and physical objects
Drugs and the Delphic Oracle
This paper critically examines several recent studies purporting to show that the priestesses of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi were intoxicated on gaseous fumes emitted as a result of geological processes. The two gaseous candidates offered, ethylene and benzene, are considered. Ethylene is shown to be impossible and benzene to be crucially underdetermined. Finally, the historical evidence on which any gaseous vent hypothesis must rest is reexam…
Weather, when and why
All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory
Se proposant de reconstruire la theorie du lieu chez Straton de Lampsacus a partir des versions contradictoires de Simplicius et de Stobee, l'A. defend, contre les interpretations contemporaines de D. Furley et S. Berryman, la these selon laquelle la theorie de la matiere de Straton pose le principe explicatif de l'horreur du vide au fondement de sa theorie des micro-vides. Realisant une rupture avec la position aristotelicienne, et s'inscrivant …
Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics
Weather, when and why
Observation and prediction in ancient astrology
Laws of nature and natural laws
Tomorrow's News Today
By looking in detail at the philosophical and technical intricacies of a set of ancient astrological theories and their treatment of issues of determinism and free will, I show that there are good reasons to question the grounds for a distinction between science and pseudoscience, modern and premodern
Drugs and the Delphic Oracle
This paper critically examines several recent studies purporting to show that the priestesses of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi were intoxicated on gaseous fumes emitted as a result of geological processes. The two gaseous candidates offered, ethylene and benzene, are considered. Ethylene is shown to be impossible and benzene to be crucially underdetermined. Finally, the historical evidence on which any gaseous vent hypothesis must rest is reexam…
Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye
This essay explores the ways in which theories and entities are culturally and intellectually embedded in historical and disciplinary contexts by looking at the development of a set of related theories of perception that emerged in response to contemporary Sceptical criticisms of the very possibility of doing empirical science. At the same time, it attempts to bring into focus a puzzle about precisely how (and how deeply) seeing itself is conditi…
Parapegma
Historians of astronomy generally use the term parapegma to describe an astronomical weather calendar such as that found in Pliny, book 18 or Columella, book 12. These literary astrometeorological parapegmata typically (but not always) list dates in a civil calendar and for each significant date described, relevant stellar phases (annual appearances and disappearances of fixed stars), as well as the weather signaled or caused by those phases.
Science, Roman
Not all scholars will be quick to agree that Roman approaches to understanding the natural world can be described as “science” without at least some qualification, nor that those intellectual projects can be straightforwardly understood as Roman, originating as they almost always do in Greek predecessors.
Sympathy and antipathy
Sympathy and antipathy are causal forces used to explain a wide range of phenomena in ancient physics.
Lucretius
CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1. Piety, labour, and justice in Lucretius and Hesiod 2. The political epistemology of infinity 3. Lucretius, Epicurus, and the Logic of Multiple Explanations 4. Nature, spontaneity, and voluntary action in Lucretius 5. Seeing and unseeing, seen and unseen 6. The poetic logic of negative exceptionalism in Lucretius, book five 7. Lucretius and the Epicurean attitude toward grief 8. Nil igitur mors est ad nosa Iphianas…
Poetry, Philosophy, Science
The volume unites the three aspects--poetry, philosophy, and science--found in Lucretius' 'De rerum natura'. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds--Adapted from the book jacket
Ancient Science in a Digital Age
Technology is rapidly changing our understanding of ancient science. New methods of visualization are bringing to light important texts we could not previously read; changes in online publishing are allowing unprecedented access to difficult-to-find materials; and online mapping tools are offering new pictures of lost spaces, connectivities, and physical objects
Enclitic Accents, Further Simplified
Enclitic Accents, Further Simplified Daryn Lehoux In 2010, Classical World published an admirable Paedagogus article by Renan Baker suggesting a short and simple pair of rules that could be used for teaching the accentuation of enclitics to beginning students of Greek.1 His rules are clearly easier for the student to remember than the usual multiple paragraphs of intimidating possibilities and exceptions that one finds in introductory grammar tex…
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Creatures Born of Mud and Slime
Observation Claims and Epistemic Confidence in Aristotle's Biology
This essay looks at the ways in which Aristotle signals his confidence in observation claims in his biological works. Widely seen as an astute observer of the natural world, Aristotle in fact makes surprisingly few explicit claims to personal observation, even if circumstantial and other evidence often provides strong hints of his own involvement. At the same time, because of the incredible variety (and often the localization) of biological speci…
Let Us Make the Effort
Scientific writing initially came to ancient Latin speakers as a foreign discipline. Greek-language sources, in the form both of written texts and of living speakers, brought a wide range of philosophical, technical, and scientific material to their Latin neighbors from at least the second century b.c.e. The challenge for the Romans, though, was not just one of translating individual texts—of turning Plato’s Timaeus into Latin, for example. Inste…
Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world
Concluding his discussion of bee reproduction in Book 3 of Generation of Animals , Aristotle makes a famous methodological pronouncement about the relationship between sense perception and theory in natural history. In the very next sentence, he casually remarks that the unique method of reproduction that he finds in bees should not be surprising, since bees have something ‘divine’ about them. Although the methodological pronouncement gets a fair…
Saved by the phenomena
Science, Roman
Recent work in the history and philosophy of science and the history of philosophy has begun to see Roman approaches to nature and the natural world as significant, independent developments on the work of their Greek predecessors. The new cultural, social, and political contexts of the Republic and Roman Imperial periods are increasingly seen to have developed in dynamic interaction with the changing understandings of the world in which the Roman…
Pseudo-Aristotle Problem 7.8
The earliest Greek text to explain how disease contagion was understood to work is the pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata . In fact, the fullest causal discussion of contagion in all of Greco-Roman literature is found in Problem 7.8. This Problem has long been a source of consternation, due to its difficult syntax combined with obscurities in its theories of contagion. Through a close reading within its philosophical context and the full history of i…
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