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A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key aspects of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations.
List of contents
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.
About the author
G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge, Former Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. He is the author of twenty-two books and editor of four, and was knighted for 'services to the history of thought' in 1997.Jingyi Jenny Zhao is Lloyd-Dan David Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and at Darwin College, Cambridge.Qiaosheng Dong is currently affiliated to the Cambridge Peking University China Centre at Jesus College.
Summary
A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key features of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations, including issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences, in agriculture, city planning and institutions. Provides a model for collaborative, comparative work on ancient civilisations.
