Science and Politics in the Ancient World 1st Edition by Benjamin Farrington 113820160X 9781138201606

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ISBN 10: 113820160X 

ISBN 13: 9781138201606

Author: Benjamin Farrington

This book, originally published in 1965, discusses the political implication of the spread of science in antiquity. It reveals how the real Greek spirit of scientific research was crushed by Plato and Aristotle, long thought-of as searchers for truth. Historian such as Polybius and Livey and the poets Pinder and Virgil are seen in a new light when set against this background of social struggle.

Table of contents:

1. INTRODUCTORY: A Modern Illustration

2. A FIRST GLANCE AT OUR PROBLEM: From Anaximander to Cosmas Indicopleustes

3. A SECOND GLANCE AT OUR PROBLEM: The Geometer-God

4. A THIRD GLANCE AT OUR PROBLEM: From Empedocles to Prudentius

5. PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN SUPERSTITION

6. THE TWO GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS OF PRE-SOCRATIC SCIENCE

7. PROMETHEUS BOUND: The Clash between Science and the City-State

8. PLATO AND THE RELIGION OF THE CITY-STATE

9. THE REVOLT FROM THE RELIGION OF THE CITY-STATE

10. WHAT EPICURUS DID

11. EPICURUS AND PLATO

12. THE RELIGION OF EPICURUS

13. EPICUREANISM REACHES ROME

14. LUCRETIUS

15. AFTER LUCRETIUS

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