Year: 2013
Type: article
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.
Author: Pamina Fernández Camacho
Institution: Universidad de Cádiz
Language: Spanish
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2018805473