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The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and
Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is
relevant to the topics of engineering and technology. This volume
highlights both the accomplishments of the ancient societies and
the remaining research problems, and stimulates further progress in
the history of ancient technology. The subject matter of the book
is the technological framework of the Greek and Roman cultures from
ca. 800 B.C. through ca. A.D. 500 in the circum-Mediterranean world
and Northern Europe. Each chapter discusses a technology or family
of technologies from an analytical rather than descriptive point of
view, providing a critical summation of our present knowledge of
the Greek and Roman accomplishments in the technology concerned and
the evolution of their technical capabilities over the
chronological period. Each presentation reviews the issues and
recent contributions, and defines the capacities and
accomplishments of the technology in the context of the society
that used it, the available "technological shelf," and the
resources consumed. These studies introduce and synthesize the
results of excavation or specialized studies. The chapters are
organized in sections progressing from sources (written and
representational) to primary (e.g., mining, metallurgy,
agriculture) and secondary (e.g., woodworking, glass production,
food preparation, textile production and leather-working)
production, to technologies of social organization and interaction
(e.g., roads, bridges, ships, harbors, warfare and fortification),
and finally to studies of general social issues (e.g., writing,
timekeeping, measurement, scientific instruments, attitudestoward
technology and innovation) and the relevance of ethnographic
methods to the study of classical technology. The unrivalled
breadth and depth of this volume make it the definitive reference
work for students and academics across the spectrum of classical
studies.
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