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Achilles’ shield. See Homer Callimachus, – Aëtius, – celestial bowls, – Aglaonice, – Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, –, , See Alcmaeon of Croton, , – selēnoskopia (or ‘view from Moon’) Alcman Cleomedes, , Partheneia (Maiden Songs), – cognitive estrangement. See selēnoskopia (view from Alexander of Abonouteichos, – Moon) amphiphōntes, Colin Webster, , – analogical drift, Corinna, – Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, , –, –, cup of Helios, – Cyrano de Bergerac, , n Anaximander of Miletus, – Anaximenes of Miletus, – Demetrius Triclinius, n, , – Ancient Greek calendar, See also parapēgmata Democritus of Abdera, –, Antiphanes of Berge, – Diogenes of Apollonia, antiphraxis, – dioptra. See Lucian, True Stories Antonius Diogenes, The incredible things beyond Thule earthshine, – and scholarly hoax, – Earthy Moon Theory (EMT), –, –, and the Arctic, – See Plutarch, De facie and the Moon, – problems/challenges, , – narrative complexity, – eclipse Apollo Noumēnios, lunar eclipse, – Apuleius mechanism of eclipse, – lunam despumari, – solar eclipse, , – Aristarchus of Samos, , Empedocles of Acragas, –, , – Aristotle Empedotimus, fire creatures on the Moon, – Endymiones, , – on nature of Moon, Ennius’ dream, – theory of elements, Epimenides of Crete, – Astraeus, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, astral travel. See soul projection Hermes. See selēnoskopia (or ‘view from astronomical observation, , See mountains Moon’) astronomy and the contemplative life (theōrētikos Euclid, – bios), – Eudoxus of Cnidus, astronomy as flight, –, Euphorion, – extremophiles, – Berossus of Babylon, Book of Enoch, Geminus, – Borges’ Aleph, , – geometrical diagrams, –
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Hecataeus of Abdera (Helixoia), , proto-telescope, Hegesianax of Alexandria Troas, – selēnoskopia, – Helen of Troy lunar climate. See Plutarch, De facie as Moon-Woman. See lunar creatures lunar creatures, – heliocentric cosmos, Aristophanes ap. Plato Symposium, heliophotism, , –, , – belief/scepticism, – Helixoia. See Hecataeus of Abdera bigger and more beautiful, – Heraclides of Pontus, , –, –, Cretan bull, , See lunar creatures egg-laying, Heraclitus of Ephesus, , – Helen of Troy, –, Hero and Leander, Heraclides of Pontus, Moon-man, – Herodorus of Heraclea, , –, Nemean lion, – Hesiod, Works and Days, – no excrement, – Homer, – rationale, – Achilles’ shield, –, – subsisting on fumes, – Homeric hymn to Selēnē, –, vultures, Homi K. Bhabha. See Third Space lunar daemones, –, – lunar day, – Ion of Chios, lunar eclipse, –, See Lucian, True Stories lunar eschatology, –, – Karl Popper, – and ancient Indian thought, kataskopia, lunar motion, Kepler, , Lunar Orbiter, Kepler Somnium (or Dream), lunar time, kōpō, lunar trinket on Roman boots, – Lunus Lucian, Icaromenippus or Sin, – and Aristophanes, , – lykabas, – and Menippean satire, –, – and view from Moon. See selēnoskopia (or ‘view ‘Man in the Moon’ pareidolion. See Demetrius from Moon’) Triclinius Daedalus theme, – mapping the Moon, – Empedocles on the Moon, Menippean satire, –, –, –, engagement with philosophical ideas, – – meteorite at Aegospotami BCE, flight narratives, , See astronomy as flight Luna (colony), – Moon’s complaint, – Moon philosophical satire, – and (religious) festivals, – Lucian, True Stories and Artemis, and metaphor, –, and Athena, dioptra, – and Atlantic exploration, – eclipse, – and cats, engagement with philosophical/scientific and change, – ideas, – and Circe, – flying Moon-frogs, and collection of debts, n, – hoax, , and daemones, – lunar fauna, – and dew, – lunar mirror and well, – and dialectics of seeing, – Moonmen, –, – and Eileithyia, , all male society, – and Elysian Plain, bodily excretions, and foam (aphros), –, death, and gender fluidity, –, – leg-womb (gastroknēmia), and Hecate, , subsisting on fumes, and Hermes,
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and hoax, –, See Lucian, True Stories, made of cloud, – See Antonius Diogenes, The incredible made of fire, –, –, , things beyond Thule made of glass, , and hybridity, , – made of smoky air, and Island of Cronus, – Moon and lamp, – associated with oracles, dreams, daemones, and magic, – – Pythagorean trick, – ocean/desert as analogy, –, Thessalian trick, – size of Moon, , – and menstrual cycle, –, mountains for astronomical observation, and mirror, –, – – and ocular metaphor, –, Mouthless Men (Astomoi), and Pandeia, Musaeus and ‘Parmenidean revolution’, – fallen from Moon, and Persephone (Korē), , –, – Myth of Er, – and Pleiades, – and ‘Second Sophistic’, Nemean lion. See lunar creatures and Selēnē, – Noctiluca, – and Sibyl, – Noumēniastai (‘New-Mooners’), – and theories of vision, – and weather prognostication, parapēgmata, and weddings, n pareidolia, and ‘White Island’ (Leukē), n Parmenides of Elea, , –, as archive, Pherecydes of Syros, , as bowl. See celestial bowls Philip of Opus, – as cartographical instrument, –, See Plato speculum lunae Cave analogy, – as ‘catoptrical machine’, –, See Moon in Platonic thought, –, –, speculum lunae – as celestial earth, , on astronomy, as cosmic junction, – on celestial bodies, as habitable world, – Plutarch, De facie as Hades, – and doxography, – as isthmus, –, and Middle Platonism, – as korē (pupil of eye), , – Aristotle’s concept of possibility, – as lamp, catoptric theory, as metafictional space, – complex structure, , – as mirror, –, , See speculum lunae contrast with Cleomedes, – as ‘pure’ world, , dialogue form, as realm of the dead, –, See Moon as doctrinal contradictions/ ‘fallibilistic’ Hades; Moon and Persephone (Korē) structure, – as reflective object, Earthy Moon Theory (EMT), –, as space of creative freedom, – geography and myth, – as space of ideological freedom, inhabited Moon, – as spleen/ liver, intertextual fabric, as sponge, lecture (diatribē), – as symbol of precarious fortune, – lunar climate, –, – as technological artefact, – lunar eschatology, – as Third Space. See Third Space Moon’s composite nature, – as uterus, – Moon’s humidifying effects on Earth, as world-soul, – natural philosophy vs. astronomy, – in ancient Indian thought, – Nemean lion/ man who fell to Earth, like hail (compacted air), , optical experiment, made of air and second density, – Pytheas of Massalia, –
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Plutarch, De facie (cont.) Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, – role of myth, – Earthrise, solar eclipse, Eratosthenes, Hermes, teleological cosmology, –, – Lucian, Icaromenippus, – use of diagrams, Lucian, True Stories, – Posidonius Pale Blue Dot, – ap. Geminus, – The Blue Marble, proto-philosophical thought, – The day the Earth smiled, – Pythagoreans, , –, – Sibyl on the Moon, – Neocles of Croton, Simon Magus, n Philolaus of Croton, –, solar eclipse, , – ps. Ecphantus, – soma. See Moon in ancient Indian thought ps. Ocellus, –, soul projection, – Pytheas of Massalia, –, speculum lunae, – Stoics, , –, Sappho, – scientific fiction, –, –, – Tabulae Iliacae, – Selēnē technology as heuristic device, , and Endymion, –, –, , – Terry Gilliam in visual art, –, The adventures of Baron Munchausen, selēnoskopia (or ‘view from Moon’), – and cognitive estrangement, Testament of Abraham, and conscience-awakening, – the old Moon in the new Moon’s arms, and crisis of expression, – Third Space, – and crisis of infinity, – and fragility of Earth, – Varro, – and Menippean satire, – Varro Endymiones, – and music, – as spoof of astral travel, – and Plato, Phaedo, – and Platonic cave analogy, – Walter Burkert, – and Roman Empire, – water on the Moon, n and Stoics’ cosmic viewpoint, – Aristophanes, Peace, – Xenocrates of Chalcedon, –, – as globalizing fantasy, Xenophanes of Colophon, –
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Achilles Tatius, Isag. .–, – Cicero, Rep. .–, Aelian, On the nature of animals .. –, Corinna fr. , – – Aëtius Demetrius Triclinius, On the black figure in the .. (DG p. , –), – Moon, ll. – Wasserstein, – .. (DG p. , ), .. (DG p. , ), – Empedocles Alcmaeon DK A (LM D), DK B (G ;LMD), Alcman DK B (G;LMD), fr. .–, DK B (G;LMD), fr. .–, – DK B (G ;LMD), – fr. .–, – Euphorion, fr. Lightfoot, – Anaxagoras Eustathius, Comm. in Od.p..– ad Od. DK A. (G .;LMD.), ., – DK A (G ;LMD), – DK B. – (G ;LMD), – Fronto, Letters Vol. I, p. . Haines, – DK B (G;LMD), Anaximander Hegesianax of Alexandria Troas DK A (G ;LMD), – fr. SH, – DK A (G ;LMD), fr. SH, Anaximenes Heraclitus DK A (G;LMD), – P.Oxy. LIII ii (b) – and iii – Anth. Graeca (Ga and b, –) . , Hesiod, Op. –, – ., – Hippolytus, Ref. .–, – Apollonius of Rhodes, Argo. .–, – Homer, Il..–, – Apuleius, Met. ., – Homeric Hymn to Selēnē Aristophanes –, – Clouds –, – –, Peace –, –, Schol. in Ar. Nubes , – Hymn. Mag. , – Aristotle De gen. anim. b–, – Lucan, Phars. .–, – De gen. anim. b–, Lucian De mot. an. b –, – Bis acc. , – Athenaeus, Deipn. ., Icar. –, – Augustine, Civ. Dei VII, , – Icar. –, – Icar. , – Callimachus Icar. , – fr. , – SH, – VH ., – fr. Pfeiffer/ fr. A SH, – VH ., –
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Manilius, Astron. .–, De fac. f–a, – De fac. c–d, , Ocellus De fac. d–e, – On the Nature of the Universe p. .– De fac. f, – Thesleff, – De fac. a–c, – On the Nature of the Universe p. , – De fac. c, – Thesleff, – De fac. d, – De fac. e–f, – Parmenides De fac. f–a, DK A (G;LMD), De fac. d, – DK B (G;LMD), – De fac. b–c, – DK B (G ;LMD), – De Is. et Osir. c, Pausanias .., – De sera num. vind. b–c, – Persius, Sat. .–, – fr. Sandbach, – Philip of Opus, Epinomis d–c, – fr. Sandbach, Philolaus DK A (G ), – Ps. Ecphantus, On kingship p. , – Philoponus, Comm.in Arist. De gen. an., p. Thesleff, – –, – Ps. Plato, Epinomis. See Philip of Opus Photius Ps. Plutarch, On rivers ., Bibl. cod. , b–a, – Bibl. cod. , a, –, – Sappho Plato fr. , – Alc. I a–b, fr. , –, – Phaedo c, – fr. , –, – Rep. a–b, – Sextus Empiricus, Adv. Math. .–, – Symp. b, – Plutarch Tatian, Oration to the Greeks ., – De def. or. d–f, – Tertullian, De anima , De def. or. e, – De fac. c–d, Varro De fac. f, – Ant. fr. Cardauns, – De fac. a, De lingua Latina ., De fac. a–b, Endymiones fr. Krenkel, – De fac. a–c, – De fac. b, – Xenocrates De fac. e, fr. IP, – De fac. d–e, – fr. IP, –
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