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Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
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Klooster, JacquelineWessels, Antje

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 r…

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978-90-04-50043-3
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Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation, Volume: 2
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