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De Lapidibus Edited With Introduction Translation And Commentary By D E Eichholz
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Download or read book De Lapidibus written by Theophrastus and published by Oxford, Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beyond the Canon by : Annette Harder
Download or read book Beyond the Canon written by Annette Harder and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers of the 'Seventh Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Beyond the Canon' (Groningen 2004). During the workshop a first draft of each of the papers was commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. A number of previous workshops was devoted largely to the major Hellenistic poets. This recent workshop explores what the poets 'beyond the canon' of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius Rhodius had to offer and it discussed questions of canonicity in Hellenistic poetry on a more general level. The papers in the present volume deal with a large range of authors and genres: Herondas, Lycophron, Euphorion, Hermesianax, Cercidas, Crates of Thebes and Alexander Aetolus, and the didactic poetry of Aratus, Nicander and Ps.-Scymnus, the later bucolic poems of Moschus and Bion and the pattern poems of Simias. At the same time special attention is given to the hexameter in inscribed Hellenistic epigram, which is compared to that of poets in the environment of the Museum of Alexandria. This volume is part of a series. Every two years a 'Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry' takes place at the University of Groningen, the papers of which are published in 'Hellenistica Groningana'.
Book Synopsis The Hippocratic Treatises "On Generation", On the Nature of the Child, "Diseases IV" by : Iain M. Lonie
Download or read book The Hippocratic Treatises "On Generation", On the Nature of the Child, "Diseases IV" written by Iain M. Lonie and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Minerals and Mineral Products by : Eucharius Rösslin
Download or read book On Minerals and Mineral Products written by Eucharius Rösslin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "On Minerals and Mineral Products".
Book Synopsis The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes by : Krzysztof Nawotka
Download or read book The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes written by Krzysztof Nawotka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes of Krzysztof Nawotka is a guide to a third century AD fictional biography of Alexander the Great, the anonymous Historia Alexandri Magni. It is a historical commentary which identifies all names and places in this piece of Greek literature approached as a source for the history of Alexander the Great, from kings, like Nectanebo II of Egypt and Darius III of Persia, to fictional characters. It discusses real and imaginary geography of the Alexander Romance. While dealing with all aspects of Ps.-Callisthenes relevant to Greek history and to Macedonia, its pays particular attention to aspects of ancient history and culture of Babylonia and Egypt and to the multi-layered foundation story of Alexandria.
Book Synopsis De materia medica by : Pedanius Dioscorides Of Anazarbus
Download or read book De materia medica written by Pedanius Dioscorides Of Anazarbus and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dies ist die erste moderne englische Übersetzung von Dioscorides' monumentalem Werk De materia medica, das er im 1. Jahrhundert unserer Zeitrechnung schrieb. Sie stützt sich auf den altgriechischen Text, den Max Wellmann 1906-1914 redigierte. Die medizinischen Stoffe, deren Herkunft, Zubereitung und Gebrauch beschrieben sind, schließen mehr als 600 Pflanzen ein, 136 Tiere und tierische Produkte und über 130 Minerale. Die Identifizierung der Pflanzen beruht auf den neuesten Erkenntnissen der Forschung zur griechisch-römischen Botanik. Bereits in der 2. Auflage hat die Autorin drei neue Register hinzugefügt: Pflanzen: Griechisch-Englisch, Tiere: Griechisch-Englisch und Minerale: Griechisch-Englisch, die gemeinsam mit den ursprünglichen Registern von beiden Sprachen aus einen leichteren Zugang zum Text bieten. Das Buch wendet sich an Klassische Philologen, an Historiker der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, an Ethnobotaniker und andere Anthropologen und an Forschungs-Pharmakologen, die in alten und volkstümlichen medizinischen Praktiken nach neuen Chemotherapien suchen. This is the first modern English translation of Dioscorides’ monumental De materia medica, written in the first century of our era. It is based on the Greek text established by Max Wellmann in 1906-1914. The medicinal materials of which the sources, preparations, and uses are described include more than 600 plants, 136 animals and animal products, and over 130 minerals. The identification of plants is based on the most recent scholarship on ancient Graeco-Roman botany. In this third edition, as in the second, the author has added three indexes: Plants and Plant Products: Greek-English, Animals and Animal Products: Greek-English, Minerals and Mineral Products: Greek-English that together with the original indexes now offer easy access to the text from either language. The book will be of interest to classical philologists, to historians of medicine and of science, to ethnobotanists and other anthropologists, and to research pharmacologists who explore ancient and folk medical practices in the search of new chemotherapies.
Book Synopsis Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 by : Martin Korenjak
Download or read book Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 written by Martin Korenjak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the invention of print around 1450 to the demise of Latin as a language of science around 1850. Despite its importance, our knowledge of this literature is extremely limited. This book aims to provide an overview of this area, the first ever to be written. It does so, not from the perspective of a natural scientist or a historian of science, but of a literary scholar. Instead of the scientific content or methodology of the respective works, it focusses on the genres of scientific literature and their communicative functions. Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 falls into two main parts. The first part ('Contexts') introduces four aspects of early modern intellectual culture which are crucial for an understanding of the scientific literature of the time: the development of science, the role of Latin, the concept of literature, and the rise of print. Part two ('Texts'), offers an overview of Neo-Latin scientific literature. Subsumed under five communicative functions - disclosing sources, presenting facts, arguing for certain positions, summarizing knowledge, and publicizing science - twenty pertinent genres are discussed.
Book Synopsis Animals in the World by : Pierre Pellegrin
Download or read book Animals in the World written by Pierre Pellegrin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Animals in the World, renowned Aristotle scholar Pierre Pellegrin attempts to demonstrate that Aristotle, by proposing an original version of natural perfection, opposes the whole of the Greek tradition. Nature is perfect, not only in its harmony of a complete and well-organized whole, but also because it brings together functionally perfect individuals.
Book Synopsis Epicurean Meteorology by : Fredericus Antonius Bakker
Download or read book Epicurean Meteorology written by Fredericus Antonius Bakker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Epicurean Meteorology Frederik Bakker discusses the meteorology as laid out by Epicurus (341-270 BCE) and Lucretius (1st century BCE). Although in scope and organization their ideas are clearly rooted in the Peripatetic tradition, their meteorology sets itself apart from this tradition by its systematic use of multiple explanations and its sole reliance on sensory evidence as opposed to mathematics and other axiomatic principles. Through a thorough investigation of the available evidence Bakker offers an updated and qualified account of Epicurean meteorology, arguing against Theophrastus’ authorship of the Syriac meteorology, highlighting the originality of Lucretius’ treatment of mirabilia, and refuting the oft-repeated claim that the Epicureans held the earth to be flat.
Book Synopsis Theories of Weight in the Ancient World by : Denis O'Brien
Download or read book Theories of Weight in the Ancient World written by Denis O'Brien and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia by : Stefan Schorn
Download or read book Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia written by Stefan Schorn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him. The central section of the Mirabilia, namely §§ 78–151, for the most part deals with historiographical material, with many of its entries having some relationship to ancient Greek historians of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The chapters in this volume discuss various aspects of this portion of the text, including textual issues involving toponyms; possible structural principles behind the organization of this section; the passages on Theopompus and Timaeus; mythography; the philosopher Heracleides of Pontos; Homeric exegesis; and the interrelationship between pseudo-Plutarch’s On Rivers, a section of the historian Stobaeus’ Geography, and the Mirabilia. Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of this text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.
Book Synopsis Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms by : Seán Hemingway
Download or read book Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms written by Seán Hemingway and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome newly designed addition to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s symposia series furthers the study of one of the most influential but less known periods of Greek art and culture. It is based on papers given at a two-day scholarly symposium held in conjunction with the award-winning exhibition “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World,” on view at the Metropolitan in 2016. The twenty diverse essays exemplify the international scope of the Hellenistic arts, which cover the three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 B.C. Subjects range from twenty-first century approaches to museum displays of archaeological material to the circulation of artists and works of art throughout the Mediterranean and the influence of Hellenistic art and its legacy in the ancient Roman world. Among the topics discussed are aspects of royal self-presentation and important elements of iconography and style in coins, gems, mosaics, sculpture, vessels, and wall paintings, in mediums including bronze, faience, glass, marble, silver, and terracotta. Authored by a number of internationally renowned scholars, the essays in this volume highlight the holdings of the Metropolitan and markedly demonstrate the artistic innovations and technical mastery of Hellenistic artists, offering new insights into the vitality and complexity of Hellenistic art. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Medicine and Healthcare by : Naomi Sykes
Download or read book The Archaeology of Medicine and Healthcare written by Naomi Sykes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved – through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving – are fundamentals of human societies. However, archaeological investigations of medicine and care have tended to examine the obvious and explicit manifestations of medical treatment as discrete practices that take place within specific settings, rather than as broader indicators of medical worldviews and health beliefs. This volume highlights the importance of medical worldviews as a means of understanding healthcare and medical practice in the past. The volume brings together ten chapters, with themes ranging from a bioarchaeology of Neanderthal healthcare, to Roman air quality, decontamination strategies at Australian quarantine centres, to local resistance to colonial medical structures in South America. Within their chapters the contributors argue for greater integration between archaeology and both the medical and environmental humanities, while the Introduction presents suggestions for future engagement with emerging discourse in community and public health, environmental and planetary health, genetic and epigenetic medicine, 'exposome' studies and ecological public health, microbiome studies and historical disability studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of World Archaeology.
Book Synopsis "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving by : John M. McManamon
Download or read book "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving written by John M. McManamon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving, John McManamon documents the revival of interest in swimming during the European Renaissance and its conceptualization as an art. Renaissance scholars realized that the ancients considered one truly ignorant who knew “neither letters nor swimming.”
Book Synopsis Ophthalmology of the Ancients by : H. Magnus
Download or read book Ophthalmology of the Ancients written by H. Magnus and published by Wayenborgh Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Origins of Geology in Italy by : Gian Battista Vai
Download or read book The Origins of Geology in Italy written by Gian Battista Vai and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cosmic Problems written by David Furley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles questions about ancient cosmology and the clash between the two opposing systems known as Aristotelianism and Atomism.