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Hellenistic Science at Court
Author | : Marquis Berrey |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110540154 |
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The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity.
Hellenistic Science at Court
Author | : Marquis Berrey |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110541939 |
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The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity.
Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B C
Author | : George Sarton |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780486277400 |
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Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of an especially fertile period for Greek astronomy, physics, mathematics, other sciences. Also illuminating discussions of art, religion, literature, more. "A wonderful book." ? Scientific American.
A History of Science Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B C
Author | : George Sarton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : UOM:39015017292296 |
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Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era
Author | : Georgia L. Irby-Massie,Paul T. Keyser |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134556397 |
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We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active from 320 BCE to 230 CE. The book begins with an outline of a new socio-political model for the development and decline of Greek science, followed by eleven chapters that cover the main disciplines: * the science which the Greeks saw as fundamental - mathematics * astronomy * astrology and geography * mechanics * optics and pneumatics * the non-mathematical sciences of alchemy, biology, medicine and 'psychology'. Each chapter contains an accessible introduction on the origins and development of the topic in question, and all the authors are set in context with brief biographies.
Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B C
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Author | : George Alfred Leon Sarton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Science, Ancient |
ISBN | : OCLC:320767152 |
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The Hellenistic Court
Author | : Andrew Erskine,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Shane Wallace |
Publsiher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781910589670 |
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Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, and also of corruption, rivalry and murder. Surrounded by courtiers of varying loyalty, Hellenistic royal families played roles in a theatre of spectacle and ceremony. Architecture, art, ritual and scholarship were deployed to defend the existence of their dynasties. The present volume, from a team of international experts, examines royal methods and ideologies. It treats the courts of the Ptolemies, Seleucids, Attalids, Antigonids and of lesser dynasties. It also explores the influence, on Greek-speaking courts, of non- Greek culture, of Achaemenid and other Near Eastern royal institutions. It studies the careers of courtesans, concubines and 'friends' of royalty, and the intellectual, ceremonial, and artistic world of the Greek monarchies. The work demonstrates the complexity and motivations of Hellenistic royal civilisation, of courts which governed the transmission of Greek culture to the wider Mediterranean world - and to later ages.
Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires
Author | : Strootman Rolf Strootman |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2020-07-13 |
Genre | : Elite (Social sciences) |
ISBN | : 9780748691289 |
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Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither 'western' nor 'eastern' and would profoundly influence the later development of court culture and monarchy in both the Roman West and Iranian East.Drawing on the socio-political models of Norbert Elias and Charles Tilly, After the Achaemenids shows how the Hellenistic dynastic courts were instrumental in the integration of local elites in the empires, and the (re)distribution of power, wealth, and status. It analyses the competition among courtiers for royal favour and the, not always successful, attempts of the Hellenistic rulers to use these struggles to their own advantage.It demonstrates the interrelationships of the three competing 'Hellenistic' empires of the Seleukids, Antigonids and Ptolemies, casts new light on the phenomenon of Hellenistic Kingship by approaching it from the angle of the court and covers topics such as palace architecture, royal women, court ceremonial, and coronation ritual.