Common Motifs In Five Ancient Histories Of Technology
Although extensive generic resemblances can be traced within the body of ancient texts relating to cultural origins, few accounts contain passages so closely similar as to make their dependence on a single source immediately obvious. Such passages do, however, exist and we shall begin our inquiry with two of the most striking. The first is taken from Diodorus' history of early Egypt the second is an excerpt from the Kulturgeschichte which appears in the second book of Vitruvius. yevop. vov y p...
Sources And Methods In The Study Of Ancient Kulturgeschichte
Discussions of Greek thought relating to the origins of culture often begin by distinguishing its two main currents, or counter-currents the myth of the Golden Age and the myth of human progress Hesiodic fantasy and Ionian science.1 The dichotomy is fundamental and persistent, but it should not be allowed to obscure the fact that there did emerge, during the course of the fifth century b.c., a clear if limited victory for one of the two points of view. It was possible thereafter to debate the...
Abbreviations
Works which appear in the Selected Bibliography on pages 207-10 are cited in the footnotes in shortened form, omitting place and date of publication, and titles of articles in periodicals. A few works are cited by author's last name alone, as Brink, G. O., OlKeiwms and Oikci-ott Theophrastus and Zeno on Nature in Moral Theory, Phronesis 1 1956 123-45. Dahlmann, J. H., De philosophorum Graecorum sententiis ad loquellae originem pertinen-tibus capita duo Diss. Leipzig 1928 . Dickermann, S. O., De...