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Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i. e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire.

Vorwort§§Gerhard Köhler (Berlin)§Zenon von Elea und sein sogenanntes 'Argument des Orts'§§Victor Gysembergh (Reims)§Zu den Kalendergöttern des Eudoxos von Knidos§§Martin F. Meyer (Koblenz)§Aristoteles über die Lebensdauer der Tiere und Pflanzen§§Giuseppe Squillace (Università della Calabria)§Menecrates of Syracuse: Reality and Fiction§§Boris Dunsch (Marburg)§Verschriftete ... : Ein übersehenes Zeugnis§bei Philodem (rh. II, P.Herc. 1672, col. XXXIII, 27-33)§§Fritz Krafft (Weimar, Lahn)§Horaz zwischen Kuhn und Copernicus§§Dominik Berrens (Mainz)§Bienen und Literatur. Überlegungen zu Senecas 84. Lucilius-Brief§§Gotthard Strohmaier (Berlin)§Astronomisches im neuen Galenkommentar zu Hippokrates,§De aere aquis locis§§Jochen Walter (Mainz)§Der Philosoph im Pantherfell. Aelian, Natura animalium 5,54§vor dem Hintergrund antiker Prätexte und moderner Tierethologie§§Marcel Humar (Berlin)§The Shipholder, the Remora, and the Lampreys -§Studies in the Identification of the Ancient Echeneis§§Peter Grunert (Mainz)§'Stereo-taxie' sprachlich und historisch betrachtet