Description
A vivid and intimate glimpse of ancient life under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten.
Life immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one early Christian writer and traveler, this book weaves together the philosophical, religious, sensory, and scientific worlds of the later Roman Empire to tell the story of how human lives were lived under different natural and spiritual laws than those we now know today.
This book takes a highly literary and sensory approach to its subject, evoking an imagined experience of an ancient natural and supernatural world, rather than merely explaining ancient thought about the natural world. It mixes visual and literary genres to give the reader a sensory and affective experience of a thought-world that is very different from our own. An experimental intellectual history, Life invites readers into the premodern cosmos to experience a world that is at once familiar, strange, and deeply compelling.
About the Author
Catherine Michael Chin is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis. He is also a multidisciplinary artist active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reviews
"Life's museum of vitalities challenges all those who are invested in meeting and making the past in order to see possibilities of another future to further explore the impact of feeling, art, and objects on historical knowing, while compellingly retelling the stories of the vibrant citizens of this universe." * Macrina Magazine *
Book Information
ISBN 9780520400689
Author Catherine Michael Chin
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm
Life immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one early Christian writer and traveler, this book weaves together the philosophical, religious, sensory, and scientific worlds of the later Roman Empire to tell the story of how human lives were lived under different natural and spiritual laws than those we now know today.
This book takes a highly literary and sensory approach to its subject, evoking an imagined experience of an ancient natural and supernatural world, rather than merely explaining ancient thought about the natural world. It mixes visual and literary genres to give the reader a sensory and affective experience of a thought-world that is very different from our own. An experimental intellectual history, Life invites readers into the premodern cosmos to experience a world that is at once familiar, strange, and deeply compelling.
About the Author
Catherine Michael Chin is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis. He is also a multidisciplinary artist active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reviews
"Life's museum of vitalities challenges all those who are invested in meeting and making the past in order to see possibilities of another future to further explore the impact of feeling, art, and objects on historical knowing, while compellingly retelling the stories of the vibrant citizens of this universe." * Macrina Magazine *
Book Information
ISBN 9780520400689
Author Catherine Michael Chin
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm
