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Science and Technology in Homeric Epics

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Editors:
  1. S. A. Paipetis

    1. Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

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  • 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)

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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.

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Medicine

    1. The Healing Art in the Iliad

      • S. G. Marketos, G. J. Androutsos
      Pages 275-281

    2. Medicinal Herbs and Plants in Homer

      • G. Klimis
      Pages 283-291

  2. Flora and Fauna

    1. Agricultural Development in the Homeric Era

      • C. C. Thanassoulopoulos
      Pages 295-301

    2. The Fauna of Greece and Adjacent Areas in the Age of Homer

      • Eleni Voultsiadou, Tatolas Apostolos
      Pages 303-315

  3. Astronomy

    1. “Eneoros Minos” and the Minoan Calendrical Abacus

      • P. D. Gregoriades
      Pages 319-324

    2. The Divine Fires of Creation: Homeric Hephaestos as a Comet/Meteor God

      • Amanda Laoupi
      Pages 325-340

    3. A Comet during the Trojan War?

      • S. P. Papamarinopoulos
      Pages 341-356

    4. Homeric Calendar and Helios Charioteer

      • Maria K. Papathanassiou
      Pages 357-368

    5. Homer and Orosius: A Key to Explain Deucalion's Flood, Exodus and Other Tales

      • Emilio Spedicato
      Pages 369-374

  4. Seafaring

    1. Homer at Sea (クデジヅヌサソツケ ヰキセサヅジケ)

      • M. T. Wright
      Pages 377-384

    2. The Redness of Ulysses' Ships

      • Th. Katsaros Thomas
      Pages 385-389

  5. Cultural Environment

    1. Ambrosia, Nectar and Elaion in the Homeric Poems

      • Doukaina G. Zanni
      Pages 391-399

    2. Dietary Habits in Homer

      • Sophia P. Christopoulou
      Pages 401-412

  6. Geography

    1. Trojan Plain and Homeric Topography

      • P. Malfas
      Pages 415-431

  7. General Interest

    1. Mêtis and the Artificial

      • K. P. Anagnostopoulos, S. Chelidoni
      Pages 435-442

    2. Interpreting the Representations on the Shield of Achilles

      • D. Kalligeropoulos, S. Vasileiadou
      Pages 443-450

    3. Homer and the So-Called Homeric Questions

      • A. Tziropoulou-Efstathiou
      Pages 451-467

    4. Atlantis in Homer and Other Authors Prior to Plato

      • Stavros P. Papamarinopoulos
      Pages 469-508

    5. Did Ulysses Travel to Atlantis?

      • Rainer W. Kühne
      Pages 509-514

    6. Homer's Reference to Writing in Proitos' Era

      • Efthymia Polygiannaki
      Pages 515-523
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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

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