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By S. A. Paipetis

ISBN-10: 9048125138

ISBN-13: 9789048125135

ISBN-10: 9400732449

ISBN-13: 9789400732445

utilizing such phrases as technological know-how and know-how, which were fairly - cently followed, to jot down approximately occasions and occasions that happened 2,500 years in the past, could be a paradox. The Homeric Epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, check with the Mycenean period, a civilisation that ?ourished from the sixteenth to twelfth c- tury BCE. The seeming paradox ceases to be one whilst sleek experts, looking through the ancients texts, become aware of wisdom and functions so complicated, that may be termed as scienti?c or technological within the smooth experience of the phrases. the current e-book is predicated on large examine played by way of the writer and his affiliates on the collage of Patras, in addition to the displays of alternative researchers at foreign symposia, which he equipped in 1 old Olympia. It comprises ?ve components, of which half I is introductory, together with such chapters as Homer and Homeric Epics, Troy and the mythological factors of the conflict, Achilles and his wrath, the siege and fall of Troy, Odysseus’ good distance domestic, the Trojan conflict and the cultural culture, scienti?c wisdom within the Homeric Epics and ?nally an account on technology and expertise. half II comprises 3 chapters on functions of ideas of usual s- ence, together with chariot racing and the legislation of curvilinear movement, creep in wooden and hydrodynamics of vortices and the gravitational sling.

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