Aither je odborný elektronický časopis zařazený do databází ERIH+ a Scopus. Je vydáván Filozofickou fakultou Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci ve spolupráci s Filosofickým ústavem Akademie věd ČR. Vychází dvakrát ročně. Každé druhé číslo je mezinárodní (International Issue) a jsou v něm publikovány cizojazyčné články (především v angličtině, ale i v němčině a francouzštině). Časopis je registrován pod číslem ISSN 1803-7860.
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Aither 27/2022:4-27 
Aristotle, as well as some other ancient scholars, ascribe to Thales of Miletus the conception of Earth floating on water. Current researchers tend to view this ascription as well-founded, but there are reasons to suppose that it does not reflect Thales’s authentic views. To wit, already in antiquity there were doubts regarding the existence of Thales’s treatise. Reports which describe his views regarding the shape of the Earth and the substance which heavenly bodies consist of are, moreover, provably based on much later concepts. Above all, archaic Ionian cosmologies tended to view the earth as the lower boundary of the universe and not...
Aither 27/2022:28-57
The article focuses on Greek and Latin interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphs and its similarity and possible relation to the classical art of memory and the (almost lost) methods of Greek mnemonics. The first part points to the differences between the Egyptian and Greek view on script and written sources, based mostly on mythological stories about the origin(s) of writing. The next part briefly explains the ancient interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, focusing on Horapollo’s Hieroglyphica and other sources. The third and last part of the study considers a possible relation of that interpretation to the art of memory. The mechanisms of creating...
Aither 27/2022:58-95
This paper explores what was meant by the face in various genres in antiquity from the earliest times to the beginning of Hellenism. The face originally represented a place where strong feelings were expressed, especially grief, shame and disgrace. If the face was somehow damaged or questioned, it diminished a person‘s value in life and after death and brought with it shame for the person and those close to him. Descriptions of the face were for a long time only very brief and general, but they still served to make aesthetic and moral judgments or to suggest how one‘s face should look in a particular situation. This prescriptive aspect...
Aither 27/2022:96-101
