Ancient Greece and China Compared

Herausgeber: Dong, Qiaosheng; Zhao, Jingyi Jenny; Lloyd, G. E. R.

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key aspects of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 949g
• ISBN-13: 9781107086661
• ISBN-10: 1107086663
• Artikelnr.: 49558907

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction G. E. R. Lloyd; Part I. Methodological Issues and Goals: 1.
Why some comparisons make more difference than others Nathan Sivin; 2.
Comparing comparisons Walter Scheidel; 3. On the very idea of
(philosophical?) translation Robert Wardy; Part II. Philosophy and
Religion: 4. Freedom in parts of the Zhuangzi and Epictetus R. A. H. King;
5. Shame and moral education in Aristotle and Xunzi Jingyi Jenny Zhao; 6.
Human and animal in early China and Greece Lisa Raphals; 7. Genealogies of
ghosts, gods and humans: the capriciousness of the Divine in early Greece
and China Michael Puett; Part III. Art and Literature: 8. Visual art and
historical representation in Ancient Greece and China Jeremy Tanner; 9.
Helen and Chinese femmes fatales Yiqun Zhou; Part IV. Mathematics and Life
Sciences: 10. Divisions, big and small: comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui
Reviel Netz; 11. Abstraction as a value in the historiography of
mathematics in Ancient Greece and China Karine Chemla; 12. Recipes for love
in the ancient world Vivienne Lo and Eleanor Re'em; Part V. Agriculture,
Planning and Institutions: 13. From the harvest to the meal in prehistoric
China and Greece: a comparative approach to the social context of food
Xinyi Liu, Evi Margaritis and Martin Jones; 14. On libraries and manuscript
culture in Western Han Chang'an and Alexandria Michael Nylan; Afterword
Michael Loewe.