The Fountain at the Herakleion of Gades in Ancient Science
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Gades, Greek Science, Polybius, Posidonius, Strabo.
Abstract
The digression about the apparently anomalous behaviour of a fountain located at the Herakleion in Gades, and how it relates to the movements of the tide, takes a large part of the island´s description contained in paragraphs 3.5.3-10 of the Amaseian geographer´s work. Theories from historians, geographers and scientists who had written on that subject are quoted, together with Strabo´s personal opinions. A study of this debate will give us an insight on both the importance of that fountain in the literature of water phenomenology of the time (in spite of its absence from extant paradoxographic works), and the scientifi c background of the proposed explanations.Downloads
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2013-03-14
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Fernández Camacho P. (2013). The Fountain at the Herakleion of Gades in Ancient Science. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, 23, 277-293. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CFCG.2013.v23.41552
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