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Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108481477 |
Download Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.
Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521541206 |
Download The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the deductive method; and as a case-study for a general view on the history of science. The starting point for the enquiry is geometry and the lettered diagram. Reviel Netz exploits the mathematicians' practices in the construction and lettering of their diagrams, and the continuing interaction between text and diagram in their proofs, to illuminate the underlying cognitive processes. A close examination of the mathematical use of language follows, especially mathematicians' use of repeated formulae. Two crucial chapters set out to show how mathematical proofs are structured and explain why Greek mathematical practice manages to be so satisfactory. A final chapter looks into the broader historical setting of Greek mathematical practice.
Author | : Denis Feeney |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674496043 |
Download Beyond Greek Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ancient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this bold revision.
Author | : Roy Gibson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1132 |
Release | : 2024-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108369189 |
Download The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).
Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2022-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108833845 |
Download A New History of Greek Mathematics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Engaging and comprehensive history of Greek mathematics, with full attention to social contexts and its place in world history.
Author | : ALEXANDER. KIRICHENKO |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0192866702 |
Download Greek Literature and the Ideal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the cultural production of space, and Greek geography a crucial factor in the production of literary meaning. The book focuses on the idealizing images that Greek literature created of three spatial patterns of power distribution: a decentralized network of aristocratically governed communities (Archaic Greece); a democratic city controlling an empire (Classical Athens); and a microcosm of Greek culture located on foreign soil, ruled by quasi-divine royals, and populated by immigrants (Ptolemaic Alexandria). Kirichenko draws connections between the formation of these idealizing images and the emergence of such literary modes of meaning making as the authoritative communication of the truth, the dialogic encouragement to search for the truth on one's own, and the abandonment of transcendental goals for the sake of cultural memory and/or aesthetic pleasure. Readings of such canonical Greek authors as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, Thucydides, Plato, Callimachus, and Theocritus show that the pragmatics of Greek literature (the sum total of the ideological, cognitive, and emotional effects that it seeks to produce) is, in essence, always a pragmatics of space: there is a strong correlation between the historically conditioned patterns of political geography and the changing mechanisms whereby Greek literature enabled its recipients to make sense of their world.
Author | : Liba Taub |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2020-01-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107092485 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
Author | : Paddy Bullard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 711 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009022415 |
Download A History of English Georgic Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism. Providing an overview of the current scholarship in georgic literature and criticism, this collection argues that the work of people and animals in farming communities, and the land as it is understood through that work, has provided writers in English with one of their most complex and enduring themes.
Author | : Steven G. Kellman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1000441512 |
Download The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree. The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism aims to provide a comprehensive overview of translingual literature in a wide variety of languages throughout the world, from ancient to modern times. The volume includes sections on: translingual genres - with chapters on memoir, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema ancient, medieval, and modern translingualism global perspectives - chapters overseeing European, African, and Asian languages Combining chapters from lead specialists in the field, this volume will be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in investigating the vibrant area of translingual literature. Attracting scholars from a variety of disciplines, this interdisciplinary and pioneering Handbook will advance current scholarship of the permutations of languages among authors throughout time.
Author | : Carl A. Huffman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 659 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139915983 |
Download A History of Pythagoreanism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.