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Anchoring Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity / / edited by Miko Flohr, Stephan Mols, and Teun Tieleman
| Anchoring Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity / / edited by Miko Flohr, Stephan Mols, and Teun Tieleman |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 pages) |
| Disciplina | 025.4/3 |
| Collana |
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation |
| Soggetto topico |
Ancient Science & Medicine
Classical Studies Greek & Latin Literature |
| ISBN |
9789004714915
900471491X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- List of Figures -- 1 Anchoring, Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity—an Introduction -- Miko Flohr, Teun Tieleman, and Stephan Mols -- Part 1: Anchoring -- 2 How the Romans Conceived their Roads: Inner Experience in the Anchoring of Technological Innovation -- James W. McAllister -- 3 Anchoring Innovation as a Form of Social Construction of Technology -- Wiebe E. Bijker -- 4 Beyond Innovation: Early Modern European Technological Values -- Lorraine Daston -- 5 Ancient Greek Doors and Their Humans -- Ineke Sluiter -- Part 2: Innovation -- 6 The Reinforcement System of the Theban Treasury in Delphi -- Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant -- 7 From Ashlar to Brick: Anchoring and Innovation in Roman Building Practice -- Miko Flohr -- 8 Tiberius and the Threat of Innovation -- Serena Connolly -- 9 Functional Innovation in Bookcraft in Roman Egypt -- Mark de Kreij -- Part 3: Technology -- 10 Anchoring, Innovation, and Ancient Near Eastern Technology -- Jill L. Baker -- 11 From Hand-Bow to Torsion Artillery Devices: Technological Innovation and the Human Factor -- Maria Gerolemou -- 12 Risky Business: Anchoring Blown Glass and Terra Sigillata Production in the Face of Risk -- Anna Soifer -- 13 Models and Modeling in Roman Technology -- Rabun Taylor -- 14 Of Myths and Machines: Anchoring Technology in Mythology in Imperial Rome -- Michiel Meeusen -- Part 4: Science -- 15 Authorizing Prognosis in Prometheus Bound -- Marianne Govers Hopman -- 16 Anchoring in tekhnê. Weaving and Plato’s Distinction of Pure and Applied Knowledge -- Giovanni Fanfani, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, and Annapurna Mamidipudi -- 17 Cultural and Cognitive Anchoring in Hero of Alexandria’s Metrica -- Courtney Roby -- 18 Galen’s Use of Hippocrates as an Anchor for Medical Innovation -- Teun Tieleman -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910996693403321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Galen on Ethics and Human Nature / / Julia Trompeter
| Galen on Ethics and Human Nature / / Julia Trompeter |
| Autore | Trompeter Julia <1980-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Disciplina | 025.4/3 |
| Collana |
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
Philosophia Antiqua |
| Soggetto topico | Philosophy |
| ISBN | 90-04-73313-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements VII -- Introduction -- 0.1 Galen’s Approach to Ethics -- 0.2 Galen’s Ethical Work and Secondary Literature -- 0.3 The Structure of the Book -- 0.4 A Biographical Note -- Part 1: The Natural Foundation of Ethics: Galen’s Moral Psychology -- 1 Galen’s Psychological Model -- 2 Voluntary Motion in Galen -- 2.1 What Is Voluntary Motion? -- 2.2 The Function of the Nerves in Voluntary Motion -- 2.3 How the Heart Affects the Brain -- 2.4 How the Liver Affects the Brain -- 2.5 The Agency of Spirit and Appetite -- 2.6 Concluding Remarks -- 3 The Physical Causes of Affections: the Substance of Anger -- 4 Heating and Cooling the Brain — Emotions and Mental Diseases in Concert -- 4.1 Ethical and Medical Affections -- 4.2 Disease, Pathos and Symptom -- 4.3 An Illness Called Rage -- 4.4 Unlike Siblings: Distress, Depression and Melancholy -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks -- Part 2: Galen’s Ethical Approach -- 5 The Rationality of Non-rational Beings: Plants, Animals, Little Children and the Lower Parts of the Soul -- 5.1 Love, Hate and Desire: The Activation of the Appetitive Part of the Soul -- 5.2 Anger and Revenge: the Activation of the Spirited Part of the Soul -- 5.3 Shame: the Activation of the Rational Part of the Soul -- 6 Moral Character and Its Therapeutical Consequences -- 6.1 Natural Character Traits and the Determination of Character -- 6.2 The Education of the Soul -- 6.3 The Justice of the Soul: Moral Virtue in Galen’s Psychology -- 7 Affections and Errors in Galen’s Moral Psychology -- 7.1 A Note on the History of the Affections -- 7.2 Galen on Metriopatheia and Apatheia -- 7.3 Galen’s Concept of the Great-Souled Man -- 8 Psychology and Theology in Galen’s Ethics -- 8.1 Why Theology? -- 8.2 The Best Doctor Is Also a Diviner -- 8.3 Creation from Within: Divine Causation and the Creation of the Irrational Soul -- 8.4 The Special Status of the Rational Soul -- 8.5 The Rational Soul and Its Deputies -- 8.6 Galen’s Epistemological Caution -- 8.7 Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911018868203321 |
Trompeter Julia <1980->
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Narratives at Play in Aeschylus : Perspectives on Genre and Poetics / / Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar
| Narratives at Play in Aeschylus : Perspectives on Genre and Poetics / / Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar |
| Autore | Gianvittorio-Ungar Laura |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Disciplina | 025.4/3 |
| Collana |
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
Mnemosyne, Supplements |
| Soggetto topico |
Classical Studies
Greek & Latin Literature Literature and Cultural Studies |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Literary criticism |
| ISBN |
9789004715806
9004715800 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Part 1. Frameworks -- Chapter 1. A Novel Take on Tragic Narrativity -- 1.1. Aeschylus' Narrative Drama -- 1.1.1. Why Narrative Drama? -- 1.1.2. Past and Current Approaches to Tragic Narratives -- 1.1.3. This Book's Approach -- 1.2. What Narrative Drama Can and Cannot Help With -- 1.2.1. Approaches to Narrative Performance -- 1.2.2. Evolutionary Models of Tragedy -- 1.2.3. A plaidoyer for mimēsis -- Chapter 2. Notions of Genre, Ancient and Modern -- 2.1. Narrative, Drama, and Their Middle Ground -- 2.1.1. Plato: Who Gives Voice and Body to the Poem? -- 2.1.2. Aristotle on Genre and Performance -- 2.1.3. Cross-Overs of Narrative and Drama: Ancient Views -- 2.2. Generic Projections -- 2.2.1. Text Transfers -- 2.2.2. Defining Genres through their History -- 2.2.3. "Nothing Happens, Really, It Is Just Talk, Talk, Talk" -- Part 2. Applications -- Chapter 3. A Functional Analysis -- 3.1. Criteria and Categories -- 3.1.1. Criteria -- 3.1.2. Action -- 3.1.3. Narrative -- 3.1.4. Response -- 3.2. Analysis -- 3.2.1. Persians -- 3.2.2. Seven against Thebes -- 3.2.3. Suppliant Women -- 3.2.4. Prometheus -- Chapter 4. Narrative Drama: Features and Functioning -- 4.1. The Presence of Narrative -- 4.1.1. Synoptic Tables -- 4.1.2. Quantifying Narrative -- 4.1.3. Narrative-Based Structure -- 4.2. Narrative's Performativity -- 4.2.1. How to Do Things with Narratives -- 4.2.2. Parameters of Performativity -- 4.2.3. The Motor of Drama -- 4.3. Influences of Narrative on the Plot -- 4.3.1. Unitary and Disunited Plot -- 4.3.2. Elastic Plots -- 4.3.3. Anachronisms and Displacements -- 4.4. Dramatizing Narratives: Some Techniques.
4.4.1. Breaking Down Narratives into Dialogues -- 4.4.2. Dramatizing Catalogues -- 4.4.3. Playing with Focalization -- Conclusions. From Tragic Narratives towards New Narratives of Tragedy -- Appendix. The Reception of the Classical Speech Criterion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Back Cover. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Perspectives on Genre and Poetics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910978247003321 |
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Gianvittorio-Ungar Laura
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium : Context and Legacy / / edited by Jonathan Greig, Joshua Robinson, and Dragos Calma
| Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium : Context and Legacy / / edited by Jonathan Greig, Joshua Robinson, and Dragos Calma |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (0 pages) |
| Disciplina | 025.4/3 |
| Collana |
History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025 |
| Soggetto topico |
Classical Studies
Philosophy |
| ISBN | 90-04-51290-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- Jonathan Greig and Dragos Calma -- Part 1 Nicholas of Methone and His Contemporary Intellectual Context -- 2 Ioanne Petritsi between Proclus and Nicholas of Methone -- István Perczel with the contribution of Levan Gigineishvili -- 3 Nicholas of Methone and Ioane Petritsi on Intellect -- Lela Alexidze -- 4 Different Understandings of Proclus’ First Principle(s) in Nicholas of Methone and Ioanne Petritsi -- Levan Gigineishvili -- 5 Nicholas of Methone against Eustratios of Nicaea? On Proclus’ Presence in the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics II -- Michele Trizio -- Part 2 The Refutation and Nicholas’ Other Works -- 6 Standards of Argument in Nicholas of Methone and Proclus: Comparing the Elementatio theologica with Nicholas’ Attempts to Disarm It -- Jan Opsomer -- 7 A Relativistic Approach to Proclus: Nicholas of Methone’s Critique of Elements of Theology § 67–74 (on Parts and Wholes) -- Arthur Oosthout -- 8 Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus and the Early Byzantines -- Jonathan Greig -- 9 The Motion of the Fertile One in Nicholas of Methone and Earlier Sources -- Joshua M. Robinson -- 10 Ontological Foundations and Methodological Applications of Analogy in Nicholas of Methone: An Example of Realism -- Christos Terezis and Lydia Petridou -- 11 12th-Century Philosophers and the Filioque: The Case of Nicholas of Methone’s Corpus on the Procession of the Holy Spirit -- Alessandra Bucossi -- 12 Reconsidering Nicholas of Methone’s Corpus on the Procession of the Holy Spirit -- Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto -- Part 3 Nicholas of Methone’s Reception and Legacy -- 13 The Discussion on Participation from Nicholas of Methone to Palamas and His Opponents -- The Scholia on Proclus’ Elementatio Theologica in Marcianus gr. 512 -- Carlos Steel -- 14 Proclus (and Nicholas of Methone) in the Hesychast Controversy -- Börje Bydén -- 15 Marsilio Ficino and Nicholas of Methone on Platonic Theology -- Stephen Gersh -- Index. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Context and Legacy |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911018867103321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social Psychology and the Ancient World : Methods and Applications / / edited by Luuk Huitink, Vlad Glaveanu and Ineke Sluiter
| Social Psychology and the Ancient World : Methods and Applications / / edited by Luuk Huitink, Vlad Glaveanu and Ineke Sluiter |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 025.4/3 |
| Collana |
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history - Methodology
Social psychologists - Methodology Classicists - Methodology Civilization, Classical - Historiography Classical Studies Social sciences |
| ISBN | 9789004731301 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: How to Do the Social Psychology of the Ancient World -- Luuk Huitink and Ineke Sluiter -- Part 1: The Psychology of Selfhood: Character and Individual -- Introduction to Part 1: the Psychology of Selfhood Now and Then -- Sandra Jovchelovitch -- 2 Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors -- Sheila Murnaghan -- 3 Individuals or Types? Ancient Criticism and Modern Psychology on Characterization in Greek Tragedy -- Evert van Emde Boas -- Part 2: Social Representations: the Role of Comedy and Satire -- Introduction to Part 2: Social Representation in Practice -- Gordon Sammut -- 4 Innovation, Group Psychology and the Comic Dêmos -- Alexandra Hardwick -- 5 “Not by Others but by Our Own Feathers”: a Social-Psychological Reading of Aristophanes’ Birds -- Xenia Makri -- 6 Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Satire: Rethinking the Laughter of Derision -- Ralph M. Rosen -- Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making -- Introduction to Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making -- Max J. van Duijn -- 7 Emotional Contagion, Empathy, and Sympathy as Responses to Verbal and Visual Narratives: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- Douglas Cairns -- 8 The Experience of Coincidence in Euripides’ Ion -- Jacqueline Klooster -- 9 Finding Orestes: Oracles and Abductive Reasoning -- Michiel van Veldhuizen -- Part 4: Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation -- Introduction to Part 4: Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation across the Ages -- Vlad P. Glăveanu -- 10 Playing Make-Believe with Objects: Counterfactual Imagination and Psychodrama in Greek Tragedy -- Anne-Sophie Noel -- 11 The Posthumous Future in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus -- Karen Bassi -- Part 5: Accommodating New Concepts -- Introduction to Part 5: Possibilities of Existence—Making and Changing Subjectivities and (Ancient) Worlds -- Paula Castro -- 12 How the Ancient World Learned to Sin -- David Konstan -- 13 Anchoring Religious Innovation: the Social Psychology of Deification in Athens 307 BCE -- Thomas R. Martin -- 14 Cyrus’ Learning Curve Views of Adolescent Psychology in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia -- Luuk Huitink and Eveline Crone -- Index. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Methods and Applications |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911018845903321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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