This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in...Daugiau...
This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in...Daugiau...
Serija: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Sep-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111443669)
The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars. Lucretius presence in later prose writers, on the other hand, is a topic that warrants more investigation. Susanne Gatzemeiers 2013 monograp...Daugiau...
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professi...Daugiau...
Serija: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Jan-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111344805)
The contributions of this volume discuss the interfaces between memory and emotions in ancient literature, social life, and philosophy. They explore the ways in which memories intersect with emotions in the epics of Homer and Virgil, the importance o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Jul-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316514665)
Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homers automata down to the figural assimilation between body pa...Daugiau...
The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with.However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at f...Daugiau...
Serija: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Jun-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110771893)
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professi...Daugiau...
Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis, Kyriakos Demetriou
Serija: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Išleidimo metai: 23-May-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110695779)
Interdisciplinary contributors present the latest work on sexual practices and their contexts in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Drawing on textual and nontextual sources, they reveal the cultural importance of sexuality and sexual practices. Wh...Daugiau...
Serija: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Apr-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110722659)
The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with. However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first...Daugiau...
Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and...Daugiau...
Serija: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Aug-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110660371)
Classicists attended a colloquium at the University of Patras during December 2016 to bring together two strands of literature that scholars have kept apart until now. One is ancient medicine, considered a high genre committed to a scientific rat...Daugiau...
Serija: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Jul-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110596878)
Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and...Daugiau...
