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Ancient Greece and China compared /

Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- (Editor , honouree.), Zhao, Jingyi Jenny (Editor ), Dong, Qiaosheng (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Why some comparisons make more difference than others / Nathan Sivin
  • Comparing comparisons / Walter Scheidel
  • On the very idea of (philosophical?) translation / Robert Wardy
  • Freedom in parts of the Zhuangzi and Epictetus / R.A.H. King
  • Shame and moral education in Aristotle and Xunzi / Jingyi Jenny Zhao
  • Human and animal in early China and Greece / Lisa Raphals
  • Genealogies of gods, ghosts and humans: the capriciousness of the divine in early Greece and early China / Michael Puett
  • Visual art and historical representation in ancient Greece and China / Jeremy Tanner
  • Helen and Chinese femmes fatales / Yiqun Zhou
  • Divisions, big and small: comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui / Reviel Netz
  • Abstraction as a value in the historiography of mathematics in ancient Greece and China: a historical approach to comparative history of mathematics / Karine Chemla
  • Recipes for love in the ancient world / Vivienne Lo and Eleanor Re'em
  • 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
  • On libraries and manuscript culture in Western Han Chang'an and Alexandria / Michael Loewe.