Editors:
- Selected papers from a unique conference that appeals to a very wide range of readers
- During the week that the Symposium took place in August 2006 in Ancient Olympia, practically all daily papers of Athens and the provincial press were reporting on the presentations with full-page or front page reports
Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science (HMMS, volume 6)
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (41 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
General Themes
-
Telecommunications
About this book
In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age.
Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis.
This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.
Editors and Affiliations
-
Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
S. A. Paipetis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science and Technology in Homeric Epics
Editors: S. A. Paipetis
Series Title: History of Mechanism and Machine Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8784-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8783-7Published: 22 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8531-0Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8784-4Published: 20 October 2008
Series ISSN: 1875-3442
Series E-ISSN: 1875-3426
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 536
Topics: Engineering Design, History of Science, History, general