Ancient Cosmologies (Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World) - Hardcover

 
9781032766294: Ancient Cosmologies (Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World)
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ISBN 10: 1032766298 ISBN 13: 9781032766294
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

In Ancient Cosmologies (1975) nine eminent scholars seek to answer the question, what was the shape of the universe imagined by those ancient peoples to whom all modern knowledge of geography and astronomy was inaccessible? How did the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Jews, Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Greeks and Norsemen conceive the form of the cosmos which accommodated not only the known face of the earth and the visible heavenly bodies but also those other worlds which it was deemed necessary to locate comprehensibly in space – the realms of the dead, both blessed and damned, and the countries inhabited by gods and demons?

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Carmen Blacker and Michael Loewe

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032766298
ISBN 13 
9781032766294
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
284
Editor
Blacker Carmen, Loewe Michael

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