Anaximander and the architects
Anaximander and the architects: the contributions of Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies to the origins of Greek philosophy Robert Hahn
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001.
ISBN: 0791447944
DDC: 182
LCC: B208
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-314) and index.
Ch. 1.Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Philosophy.The Problem and
the Three Tiers of Explanation.The Conventional View and Its
Discontents.The New Contributing Thesis: Technology as Politics --Ch.
2.The Ionian Philosophers and Architects.Fixing Anaximander's Date:
The First Philosophical Book in Prose.Archaic Prose Writing:
Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions.Prose in Archaic
Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander.
Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes.The New Connection:
The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek
Architects of the Archaic Period.An Overview of Monumental Temple
Projects in Archaic Ionia.The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices
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Ch. 3.The Techniques of the Ancient Architects.The Evidence for
Imagining in Plan or Aerial View.The Evidence for Models.The Theory
of Proportions.The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion --Ch.
4.Anaximander's Techniques.Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision
Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques.Homer's World
Picture.Hesiod's World Picture.Anaximander's World Picture: The Plan
or Aerial View.Anaximander's World Picture: Three-dimensional Views -
The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views --Ch.
5.Technology as Politics: The Origins of Greek Philosophy in Its
Sociopolitical Context.Re-Framing the New Narrative Account.The
Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples.Technology as Politics: The
"Argument" for the Appropriation of Civic Authority.
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