Science and Technology in Homeric Epics /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008. |
| Series: | History of Mechanism and Machine Science,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.