Cambridge University Press, 1/11/2018EAN 9781107086661, ISBN10: 1107086663Hardcover, 446 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.5 cmLanguage: EnglishAncient 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 by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.Introduction G. E. R. LloydPart I. Methodological Issues and Goals1. Why some comparisons make more difference than others Nathan Sivin2. Comparing comparisons Walter Scheidel3. On the very idea of (philosophical?) translation Robert WardyPart II. Philosophy and Religion4. Freedom in parts of the Zhuangzi and Epictetus R. A. H. King5. Shame and moral education in Aristotle and Xunzi Jingyi Jenny Zhao6. Human and animal in early China and Greece Lisa Raphals7. Genealogies of ghosts, gods and humansthe capriciousness of the Divine in early Greece and China Michael PuettPart III. Art and Literature8. Visual art and historical representation in Ancient Greece and China Jeremy Tanner9. Helen and Chinese femmes fatales Yiqun ZhouPart IV. Mathematics and Life Sciences10. Divisions, big and smallcomparing Archimedes and Liu Hui Reviel Netz11. Abstraction as a value in the historiography of mathematics in Ancient Greece and China Karine Chemla12. Recipes for love in the ancient world Vivienne Lo and Eleanor Re'emPart V. Agriculture, Planning and Institutions13. From the harvest to the meal in prehistoric China and Greecea comparative approach to the social context of food Xinyi Liu, Evi Margaritis and Martin Jones14. On libraries and manuscript culture in Western Han Chang'an and Alexandria Michael NylanAfterword Michael Loewe.
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