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A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including Homer's ""Odyssey"", the ancient Chinese ""Classic of Poetry"", Thucydides' ""History of the Peloponnesian War"", Sima Qian's ""Records of the Historian"", Plato's ""Symposium"", and Laozi's ""Dao de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi"". The intention, through such jux

Greek literature --- Chinese literature --- Comparative literature --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- History and criticism. --- Greek and Chinese. --- Chinese and Greek. --- History and criticism --- Greece --- China --- Intellectual life. --- Philosophy, Ancient --- S02/0210 --- S02/0300 --- S12/0820 --- S16/0700 --- Chinese and Greek --- Greek and Chinese --- China: General works--Intellectuals: general and before 1840 --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Comparative literature