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SUMMARY:Ancient Cosmos: Concord among Worlds
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LOCATION:38 North Bailey\, Durham\, United Kingdom\, DH1 3EU
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Ancient Cosmos: Concord among Worlds</strong></p>\n<p>A CAMNE Conference at the Department of Classics and Ancient History\, Durham University</p>\n\n<p>&lsquo\;The cosmos of a polis is manpower\, of a body beauty\, of a soul wisdom\, of an action virtue\, of a speech truth\, and the opposites of these make for acosmia.&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;- Gorgias\, <em>Encomium of Helen</em> 1</p>\n\n<p>Cosmos is a term that encompasses a wide variety of meanings and applications in the ancient world\, each of which\, broadly speaking\, implies the &lsquo\;order&rsquo\; that things can have. &nbsp\;As the sophist Gorgias of Leontini attests\, cosmos can refer to the most proper (or best) order of many sorts of things\, including those made up of many constituent parts (city-states\, bodies\, and speeches) as well as those that seem to be unified (souls\, actions). &nbsp\;But its application in antiquity goes far beyond the list given by Gorgias: in Homeric poetry (<em>Od</em>. 8.489)\, as elsewhere in later poetry and literary criticism\, being kosmios entails the proper arrangement and truth of a speech act. &nbsp\;Ornamental dress is designated kosm&ecirc\;ma by Xenophon (<em>Cyr</em>. 7.3.7)\, which reflects a broader concern with proper cosmetic arrangement that also applies to sculpture and architecture. &nbsp\;Cosmos also featured in novel ways of thinking about citizenship in Imperial Rome: for Martial (VII. 41)\, the cosmicus is a new arrival in the Roman mundus\, a kindred concept to the cosmos which reaches back to the early Roman stage. &nbsp\;In philosophy\, natural science\, and theology\, from Heraclitus and Plato to Proclus and Origen\, cosmos refers to the world-order that is held together through forces of opposition\, equilibrium\, and measure.</p>\n\n<p>The Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University\, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (CAMNE)\, seeks to pursue a better understanding of the various modalities that cosmos took on throughout the ancient world\, from its pre-Greek origins in the Near East to its role in the articulation of Christian theology in the later Roman Empire. &nbsp\;Please visit the Conference Website at workofmemory.wordpress.com for further information.</p>
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