Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of Chinas intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundaries…
"Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China's intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundari…
Oral transmission of medical knowledge and written recipes -- The history of the written catalogues of recipes -- Hippocratic recipes between home remedies and haute medecine -- Imports, geographical determinism, and influences : the use of exotic and luxury ingredients in the H…
At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The defendants were all women and in each case the charges involved a combination of ritual activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of the brevity of the ancient sources, and their la…
At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The defendants were all women and in each case the charges involved a combination of ritual activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of the brevity of the ancient sources, and their la…
Setting the scenes -- The pots -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Fragments of Euripides -- Unknown tragedies -- Index of vases
Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century B. C.
Biographical note: H.R. Goette, University of Giessen, DAI; E. Csapo, P. Wilson, University of Sydney; J.R. Green, University of Sydneyand of London. Past scholarship described the fourth century BC as an age of theatrical decline. This book, the first to explore all aspects of…
