Ancient Greece and China compared / edited by G.E.R. Lloyd and Jingyi Jenny Zhao ; in collaboration with Qiaosheng Dong.

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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Other Authors: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- (Editor, honouree.)
Zhao, Jingyi Jenny (Editor)
Dong, Qiaosheng
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Comparative civilization > Congresses.
Civilization, Ancient > Congresses.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C. > Congresses.
China > Civilization > To 221 B.C. > Congresses.
Civilization.
Civilization, Ancient.
Comparative civilization.
China.
Greece.
To 146 B.C.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Genre:
Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:xv, 430 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects / 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 Gods, Ghosts and Humans: The Capriciousness of the Divine in Early Greece and Early China / Micheal 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: A Historical Approach to Comparative History of Mathematics / Karine Chemla
  • 12 Recipes for Love in the Ancient World / Vivienne Lo, 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, Martin Jones
  • 14 On Libraries and Manuscript Culture in Western Han Chang'an and Alexandria / Michael Nylan
  • Afterword / Michael Loewe
  • Index.