Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson
| Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) : 15 black and white illustrations, 89 colour illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - Ancient influences
Philosophy, Ancient PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
| ISBN |
9781399505338
1399505335 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity for Life -- PART I. ENCOUNTERING ANCIENT PRACTICE -- 1. Situations -- 1 The Cosmology of Prudence -- 2 The Pleasures of the Problem: Path, Decision and Annulment in Parmenides and Badiou -- 3 The Strangeness of Reflexivity -- 4 The Stoic Toolbox for Ethical Mathematics: Stoic Ethics and Moral Calculation Rules -- 2. Conjunctions -- 5 Plato’s Lysis: The Dilemma of Friendship and Love -- 6 Aristotle on the Praxis of Life -- 7 Theory and Politics in Plato’s Republic -- 8 Aristophanic Comedy and Its Democratic Permutations: Fidelity in Spirit? Or in Content and Form? -- PART II. PRACTICES OF ENCOUNTERING ANTIQUITY -- 3. Fragments -- 9 Forms of Memory -- 10 Anthropocene Fragments: A Sapphic Thought Collage -- 11 Exiles and Deserts -- 12 Black Dionysus -- 4. Accumulations -- 13 Photographing with the Muses -- 14 How to Read the Nature of Things -- 15 Eternal Recurrence and a History of Racism -- 16 On Lucretius -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910908699803321 |
| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson
| Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) : 15 black and white illustrations, 89 colour illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - Ancient influences
Philosophy, Ancient PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
| ISBN |
9781399505338
1399505335 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity for Life -- PART I. ENCOUNTERING ANCIENT PRACTICE -- 1. Situations -- 1 The Cosmology of Prudence -- 2 The Pleasures of the Problem: Path, Decision and Annulment in Parmenides and Badiou -- 3 The Strangeness of Reflexivity -- 4 The Stoic Toolbox for Ethical Mathematics: Stoic Ethics and Moral Calculation Rules -- 2. Conjunctions -- 5 Plato’s Lysis: The Dilemma of Friendship and Love -- 6 Aristotle on the Praxis of Life -- 7 Theory and Politics in Plato’s Republic -- 8 Aristophanic Comedy and Its Democratic Permutations: Fidelity in Spirit? Or in Content and Form? -- PART II. PRACTICES OF ENCOUNTERING ANTIQUITY -- 3. Fragments -- 9 Forms of Memory -- 10 Anthropocene Fragments: A Sapphic Thought Collage -- 11 Exiles and Deserts -- 12 Black Dionysus -- 4. Accumulations -- 13 Photographing with the Muses -- 14 How to Read the Nature of Things -- 15 Eternal Recurrence and a History of Racism -- 16 On Lucretius -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996639671603316 |
| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The frontiers of ancient science : essays in honor of Heinrich von Staden / / edited by Brooke Holmes and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, with the assistance of Emilio Capettini
| The frontiers of ancient science : essays in honor of Heinrich von Staden / / edited by Brooke Holmes and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, with the assistance of Emilio Capettini |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Hawthorne, New York] : , : De Gruyter, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (776 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Collana | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde |
| Soggetto topico | Medicine, Greek and Roman |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
3-11-033633-2
3-11-038930-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians -- Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence -- “Hippocratic” Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World -- Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question -- Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants -- A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia -- Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates – Monat für Monat! -- Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.6 -- Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit à Rougiers (Var): pour une étude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain -- Medicine and Misfortune: Symptōma in Greek Medical Writing -- Mathematics in Plato’s Republic -- Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors -- Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates’ Prognostic: A New Discovery -- Aristotle’s Badger -- Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics -- Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body -- “For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure” (somn. vig. 3, 457a9‒10) -- Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre -- How Archytas Doubled the Cube -- A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus’ De virtutibus herbarum -- What’s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected -- An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation -- Des listes pour apprendre, résoudre, classer, archiver, explorer ou inventer -- Conceiving the History of Science Forward -- Galeno sull’autenticità del Prorretico I -- Hippokrateskommentare im 16. Jahrhundert: Peter Memms Eidkommentar als Paradigma eines gegenwartsbezogenen Genres -- Technē and Method in Ancient Artillery Construction: The Belopoeica of Philo of Byzantium -- Herrschaftskritik bei Galen -- Galen on the Assessment of Bodily Mixtures -- Contributors -- Heinrich von Staden: Bibliography 1975–2012 -- Index locorum qui e scriptoribus antiquis et medii quod dicunt aevi Graecis atque Latinis citantur -- General Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464173903321 |
| [Hawthorne, New York] : , : De Gruyter, , [2015] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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