TY  - BOOK
TI  - Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
T2  - Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation
SN  - 9789004500143
PY  - 2022///
PB  - Brill
KW  - History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - aetiological; Greek; Roman; Antiquity; etiologisch; Grieks; Romeins
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90670
ER  -