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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Myth and the Logos -- Order and Chaos -- Mythical Battlefi elds: Monstrosity as a Weapon -- Causality and Monstrosity: Challenging Zeus -- 2 The Pre-Platonic Philosophers -- Anaxagoras: A Material Origin for Life and Monstrosity -- Empedocles: Wonders to Behold -- Democritus: Agonism within Matter -- 3 Plato -- 4 Aristotle -- 5 Epicurus and Lucretius -- An Immanent Causality for an Infinite Universe -- Zoogony, Monstrosity and Nature's Normativity -- Concourses of Nature -- Lucretius's Impact on the Augustan Age -- 6 Stoicism -- Nominalism |
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Good and Evil, Beauty and Ugliness -- Providence, God and Teleology -- 7 Scepticism -- The Tropes and the Critique of Essentialism -- To What Purpose? -- 8 Middle and Neoplatonism -- The Material World and the Rediscovery of Transcendence -- Demons -- The World Order -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Verborum -- Index Rerum -- Index Nominum |
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9781474456234 (electronic bk.) |
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1474456235 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474456227 Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1474456227 |
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9781474456203 |
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1474456200 |
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