Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische Spurensuche/Telling Origins. On the Lookout for Aetiology
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 243477-229532-1284
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Olms
- ISBN
- 9783487151908
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Both co-editors were equally involved in the editorial decisions regarding the conception of the volume, the selection of papers and contributors, the structure of the volume and the arrangement of the papers within the individual sections. Both editors proof-read all of the papers and shared the correspondence with the authors, the translating of a number of paper abstracts as well as the cross-referencing between individual papers. They both supervised the student who assisted them with copy-editing and indexing, and shared the communication with the publisher. A. Walter first drafted the introduction, and contributed a chapter, ‘Ovids alma Venus, die Mutter der Aitiologie’.
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- An edited collection on aitiology in Greek and Latin literature, with papers in German and English. Walter's chapter is a study of Ovid, Fasti 4.1-132: a passage where Ovid announces his new aesthetics of aetiology. Ovid claims to have grasped the true spirit of aetiology: a spirit of beauty, which creates appropriate connections between words, as between cause and effect, and conforms to the rhetorical category of the aptum. This allows Ovid to distance himself from Lucretius and announce the turn to a new kind of aetiology, which is both relevant to Rome, but also playful and aesthetically satisfying.
