Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations |
| ISBN-13 | 9781108935753 |
| Open Library | OL26347840W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2020 - 2020 |
| Language | EN |
"In the history of ancient philosophy there is a kind of fascinating black hole between Cicero's last philosophical treatises and the first works of Seneca and Philo. From this period very little has survived via direct transmission. The causes of this silence are multiple and complex. One of them is certainly the Roman civil war, the commune nefas, as the poet Lucan put it. Not only was it a major political trauma, but it had momentous consequences for Roman philosophy. The period before the war was that of Lucretius, Cicero, Cato and many other Romans with profound philosophical interests"--
Shifting Epistemological Perspectives in Ptolemy’s Harmonics
In the first sentence of his Harmonics Ptolemy offers a definition of the science to which his work is devoted, and – rather surprisingly – it contains nothing to indicate that Harmonics is concerned, specifically, with matters to do with music. On the contrary, the definition seems to say that it is concerned with sounds of all sorts, insofar as they differ from one another in pitch. We know, of course, that in fact the work does indeed focus al…
Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire
"In the history of ancient philosophy there is a kind of fascinating black hole between Cicero's last philosophical treatises and the first works of Seneca and Philo. From this period very little has survived via direct transmission. The causes of this silence are multiple and complex. One of them is certainly the Roman civil war, the commune nefas, as the poet Lucan put it. Not only was it a major political trauma, but it had momentous consequen…
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Shifting Epistemological Perspectives in Ptolemy’s Harmonics
In the first sentence of his Harmonics Ptolemy offers a definition of the science to which his work is devoted, and – rather surprisingly – it contains nothing to indicate that Harmonics is concerned, specifically, with matters to do with music. On the contrary, the definition seems to say that it is concerned with sounds of all sorts, insofar as they differ from one another in pitch. We know, of course, that in fact the work does indeed focus al…
Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire
"In the history of ancient philosophy there is a kind of fascinating black hole between Cicero's last philosophical treatises and the first works of Seneca and Philo. From this period very little has survived via direct transmission. The causes of this silence are multiple and complex. One of them is certainly the Roman civil war, the commune nefas, as the poet Lucan put it. Not only was it a major political trauma, but it had momentous consequen…