Hellenistic Science At Court
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Author |
: Marquis Berrey |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 333 |
Release |
: 2017-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110540154 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110540150 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hellenistic Science at Court by : Marquis Berrey
The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity.
Author |
: Marquis Berrey |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2017-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110541939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110541939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hellenistic Science at Court by : Marquis Berrey
The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity.
Author |
: George Sarton |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 593 |
Release |
: 1993-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486277400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486277402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. by : George Sarton
Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of an especially fertile period for Greek astronomy, physics, mathematics, other sciences. Also illuminating discussions of art, religion, literature, more. "A wonderful book." ? Scientific American.
Author |
: George Sarton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 588 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015017292296 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C by : George Sarton
Author |
: George Alfred Leon Sarton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 5 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:320767152 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. by : George Alfred Leon Sarton
Author |
: Georgia L. Irby-Massie |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2013-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134556397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113455639X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era by : Georgia L. Irby-Massie
We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active from 320 BCE to 230 CE. The book begins with an outline of a new socio-political model for the development and decline of Greek science, followed by eleven chapters that cover the main disciplines: * the science which the Greeks saw as fundamental - mathematics * astronomy * astrology and geography * mechanics * optics and pneumatics * the non-mathematical sciences of alchemy, biology, medicine and 'psychology'. Each chapter contains an accessible introduction on the origins and development of the topic in question, and all the authors are set in context with brief biographies.
Author |
: Thomas W. Africa |
Publisher |
: New York : Wiley |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1967 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015014283066 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science and the State in Greece and Rome by : Thomas W. Africa
Author |
: Paul Cartledge |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520206762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520206762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hellenistic Constructs by : Paul Cartledge
The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a wide-ranging exploration of current discoveries and questions. The twelve essays emphasize the cultural interaction of Greek and non-Greek societies in the Hellenistic period, in contrast to more conventional focuses on politics, society, or economy. The result of original research by some of the leading scholars in Hellenistic history and culture, this volume is an exemplary illustration of the cultural richness of this period. Paul Cartledge's introduction contains an illuminating introductory overview of current trends in Hellenistic scholarship. The essays themselves range over broad questions of comparative historiography, literature, religion, and the roles of Athens, Rome, and the Jews within the context of the Hellenistic world. The volume is dedicated to Frank Walbank and includes an updated bibliography of his work which has been essential to our understanding of the Hellenistic period.
Author |
: George Sarton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 580 |
Release |
: 1959 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:257790677 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Science. Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last 3 Centuries by : George Sarton
Author |
: Strootman Rolf Strootman |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2020-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748691289 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748691286 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires by : Strootman Rolf Strootman
Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither 'western' nor 'eastern' and would profoundly influence the later development of court culture and monarchy in both the Roman West and Iranian East.Drawing on the socio-political models of Norbert Elias and Charles Tilly, After the Achaemenids shows how the Hellenistic dynastic courts were instrumental in the integration of local elites in the empires, and the (re)distribution of power, wealth, and status. It analyses the competition among courtiers for royal favour and the, not always successful, attempts of the Hellenistic rulers to use these struggles to their own advantage.It demonstrates the interrelationships of the three competing 'Hellenistic' empires of the Seleukids, Antigonids and Ptolemies, casts new light on the phenomenon of Hellenistic Kingship by approaching it from the angle of the court and covers topics such as palace architecture, royal women, court ceremonial, and coronation ritual.