Science and Technology in Homeric Epics - Paipetis, S. A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
General Themes -- Mycenaean Technology -- Autagreton -- Mathematics and Physics -- Archimedes' Count of Homer's Cattle of the Sun -- Vortices in Homer's Odyssey - A Scientific Approach -- The Homeric Automata and Their Implementation -- The River Ocean: Homer's Cosmogony -- The Laws of Curvilinear Motion in the Iliad -- Materials -- Iron in the Homeric Epics & Homer, a Sensible Ecologist -- Early Bronze Technology at Land's End, North Western Iberia -- Porphyra: In Search of Dyeing Methods in Ancient Greece -- Technology Transfer in the Bronze Age: The Case of a Faience-Like Blue Glaze Produced at Bread-Oven Temperatures -- DefensiveWeapons -- From Homer to Hoplite: Scientific Investigations of Greek Copper Alloy Helmets -- Defensive Weapons in Homer -- How the Greeks Got Ahead: Technological Aspects of Manufacture of a Corinthian Type Hoplite Bronze Helmet from Olympia -- Telecommunications -- Theoretical Analysis of Telecommunication through "Friktories" -- Geology - Geomechanics -- Elements of Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering in the Homeric Poems -- Geological Knowledge of Greeks in the Era of Trojan War -- Static and Dynamic Analysis of the Atreus Vaulted Tomb in Mycenae -- Medicine -- Homeric Injury Scenes on Ancient Greek Pottery Reveal Medical Knowledge -- The Healing Art in the Iliad -- Medicinal Herbs and Plants in Homer -- Flora and Fauna -- Agricultural Development in the Homeric Era -- The Fauna of Greece and Adjacent Areas in the Age of Homer -- Astronomy -- "Eneoros Minos" and the Minoan Calendrical Abacus -- The Divine Fires of Creation: Homeric Hephaestos as a Comet/Meteor God -- A Comet during the Trojan War? -- Homeric Calendar and Helios Charioteer -- Homer and Orosius: A Key to Explain Deucalion's Flood, Exodus and Other Tales -- Seafaring -- Homer at Sea (????????? ???????) -- The Redness of Ulysses' Ships -- Cultural Environment -- Ambrosia, Nectar and Elaion in the Homeric Poems -- Dietary Habits in Homer -- Geography -- Trojan Plain and Homeric Topography -- General Interest -- Mêtis and the Artificial -- Interpreting the Representations on the Shield of Achilles -- Homer and the So-Called Homeric Questions -- Atlantis in Homer and Other Authors Prior to Plato -- Did Ulysses Travel to Atlantis? -- Homer's Reference to Writing in Proitos' Era -- Linguistic Science and Script Technology: The Homeric Evidence -- The Miraculous Homeric Metre.
Keywords: Engineering design; History; Engineering Design; History of Science; History, general