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Climate, Weather and Health
History meets Science
Meteorology Beyond Borders
μετέωρα
see also:
things in the sky
Aristotle METE
μετέωρα
Lucretius DRN
[not attested]
Seneca NQ
sublimia, -orum
References for Greek and Latin
Modern Description
written by Susanne M Hoffmann
This term has no analogy in modern languages: For the ancients, the term literally referred to everything in the sky which we would consider being totally different categories:
• clouds and weather phenomena
• stars, Moon, Sun, planets and phenomena of astronomy
• meteors, aurorae and other phenomena of the stratosphere (high layers of the Earth’s atmosphere)
• flying birds and other animals
Further Remarks
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