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Doubting Thomas
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ISBN: 0674019148 9780674025615 9780674019140 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

Disciplining classics = : Altertumswissenschaft als Beruf
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ISBN: 3525259050 Year: 2002 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,

Historicization = : Historisierung
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ISBN: 3525259042 Year: 2001 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,

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The shield ; : Catalogue of women ; Other fragments
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ISBN: 9780674997202 9780674997219 0674997204 0674997212 Year: 2018 Volume: 57, 503 1-2 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,

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"The second volume contains The Shield and extant fragments of other poems, including the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. The former provides a Heiodic counterpoint to the shield of Achilles in the Iliad; the latter presents several legendary episodes organized according to the genealogy of their heroes' mortal mothers. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest" --Book jacket.


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Hesiod.
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,

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"Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer. The first volume of this revised Loeb Classical Library edition offers Hesiod's two extant poems and a generous selection of testimonia regarding his life, works, and reception. In Theogony, Hesiod charts the history of the divine world, narrating the origin of the universe and the rise of the gods, from first beginnings to the triumph of Zeus, and reporting on the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal men. In Works and Days, Hesiod shifts his attention to humanity, delivering moral precepts and practical advice regarding agriculture, navigation, and many other matters; along the way he gives us the myths of Pandora and of the Golden, Silver, and other Races of Men. The second volume contains The Shield and extant fragments of other poems, including the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. The former provides a Hesiodic counterpoint to the shield of Achilles in the Iliad; the latter presents several legendary episodes organized according to the genealogy of their heroes' mortal mothers. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest. Glenn W. Most has thoroughly revised his edition to take account of the textual and interpretive scholarship that has appeared since its initial publication." --Book jacket.

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Mythology, Greek --- Hesiod.


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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IV : Western Greek Thinkers, Part 1
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ISBN: 9780674996540 9780674996892 9780674996915 9780674996922 9780674997066 9780674997073 9780674997080 9780674997097 9780674997103 0674996542 0674996895 0674996917 0674996925 0674997069 0674997077 0674997085 0674997093 0674997107 Year: 2016 Volume: 524-532 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the material's thematic organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these thinkers until the end of antiquity ... Volume IV presents western Greek thinkers from Pythagoras and the Pythagorean School.


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Mathematical commentaries in the ancient world : a global perspective
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ISBN: 1108884482 1108880932 1108839576 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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This is the first book-length analysis of the techniques and procedures of ancient mathematical commentaries. It focuses on examples in Chinese, Sanskrit, Akkadian and Sumerian, and Ancient Greek, presenting the general issues by constant detailed reference to these commentaries, of which substantial extracts are included in the original languages and in translation, sometimes for the first time. This makes the issues accessible to readers without specialized training in mathematics or in the languages involved. The result is a much richer understanding than was hitherto possible of the crucial role of commentaries in the history of mathematics in four different linguistic areas, of the nature of mathematical commentaries in general, of the contribution that the study of mathematical commentaries can make to the history of science and to the study of commentaries in general, and of the ways in which mathematical commentaries are like and unlike other kinds of commentaries.

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