- Selected papers from a unique conference that will appeal to a very wide range of readers
- During the week that the symposium took place in August 2006 in ancient Olympia, practically all the daily papers of Athens and the provincial press were reporting on the presentations with full-page or front page reports
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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.
- Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Mycenaean Technology
Pages 3-33
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Autagreton
Pages 35-39
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Archimedes' Count of Homer's Cattle of the Sun
Pages 43-66
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Vortices in Homer's Odyssey — A Scientific Approach
Pages 67-75
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The Homeric Automata and Their Implementation
Pages 77-84
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Science and Technology in Homeric Epics
- Editors
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- S. A. Paipetis
- Series Title
- History of Mechanism and Machine Science
- Series Volume
- 6
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-8784-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-8784-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-8783-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-8531-0
- Series ISSN
- 1875-3442
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 536
- Topics
