Ancient Greece and China compared / edited by G.E.R. Lloyd and Jingyi Jenny Zhao ; in collaboration...
Ancient Greece and China compared / edited by G.E.R. Lloyd and Jingyi Jenny Zhao ; in collaboration...
Ancient Greece and China compared / edited by G.E.R. Lloyd and Jingyi Jenny Zhao ; in collaboration with Qiaosheng Dong.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/6037
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English
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Physical content
xv, 430 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : Methods, Problems and Prospects / G.E.R. Lloyd -- PART I METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND GOALS. 1 Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others / Nathan Sivin -- 2 Comparing Comparisons / Walter Scheidel -- 3 On the Very Idea of (Philosophical?) Translation / Robert Wardy -- PART II...
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackle...
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Ancient Greece and China compared / edited by G.E.R. Lloyd and Jingyi Jenny Zhao ; in collaboration with Qiaosheng Dong.
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"This book originated in a conference entitled Comparing Ancient Worlds: Greece and China that marked the celebration of G. E. R. Lloyd's eightieth birthday on 25 January 2013."--Page x.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/6037
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ISBN
1107086663 hardback
9781107086661 hardback
DDC
938
MMS ID
991024194627002626
