Materia Philosophiae. Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy /

Materia Philosophiae. Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy /

Ever since Thales fell into the well, popular imagination has pictured philosophers as abstracted from everyday reality. Materia Philosophiae: The Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy counters that view. Philosophy in ancient Greece grew out of and remained closely connected to the material rea...

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Other Authors: Hahn, Robert (Editor), Wians, William (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 9.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Philosophical Argument and Material Realities An Introduction William Wians and Robert Hahn
  • Part 1 Philosophers and Technologies
  • 1 Material Modular Thinking, Substance Monism, and the Origins of Greek Philosophy Architecture , Gnomon , Coinage , and the Felting of Wool Robert Hahn
  • 2 Placing the Ionian Περι Φυσεως Ιστορια in Context The Role of Sea Trade , Colonization , Navigation and Analogies from Manufacturing Crafts (Τεχναι) in the Birth of Greek Science
  • Andrei Lebedev
  • 3 Greek Ships, Seamanship and Cosmology
  • Andrew Gregory
  • 4 The Gods and the Machine Ancient Automata and Divine Causation Sylvia Berryman
  • Part 2 Thinking with Objects
  • 5 Using a Household Artefact as an Epistemological Tool The Clepsydra in Anaxagoras , Aristotle ' s de Caelo, and Empedocles
  • Nathasja Roggo-van Luijn
  • 6 The Metaphysics of the Coin-Image
  • Richard Seaford
  • 7 Anaximenes and the Millstone
  • Dirk L. Couprie
  • 8 Weaving the Double Square An ( Im -) Material Contribution to Early Greek Mathematics Ellen Harlizius-Klück and Giovanni Fanfani
  • Part 3 Philosophical Media and Their Messages
  • 9 The Limited Relevance of Writing in Early Greek Philosophy and Science
  • Harold Tarrant
  • 10 Metadiscourse The Fabric of Early Greek Philosophical Prose
  • Gaston Javier Basile
  • 11 Materiality and Philosophy The Ancient Greek and Chinese Experiences Compared G.E.R. Lloyd
  • Part 4 Philosophy and Ancient Embodiment
  • 12 Thales and the Measure of Wisdom
  • Philip Thibodeau
  • 13 New Insights into Pythagorean Women's Material Philosophy
  • Bella Vivante
  • 14 Xenophanes the Sophist? Material Realities and Philosophical Innovation
  • William Wians
  • Index.