Anatomical terms are the vocabulary of medicine. Anatomy began as a descriptive science in the days when Latin was the universal scientific language. Early anatomists described the structures they saw in that language, comparing them to common and familiar objects, or borrowing terms from the Greek and Arabic masters before them. In anatomic terminology, common Latin or Greek words are used as such for any part of the body for which the ancients had a name. For many other structures, scientific names have been invented either by using certain classical words which appear to be descriptive of the part concerned, or commonly, by combining Greek or Latin roots to form a new compound term. Memorization of such terms without understanding their meaning can lead to mental indigestion.
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Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece.
* Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and figurines, and the practitioners of magic in the ancient world
* Uncovers how magic worked. Was it down to mere superstition? Did the subject need to believe in order for it to have an effect?
* Focuses on detailed case studies of individual types of magic
* Examines the central role of magic in Greek life
Greek Political Thought by Ryan K. Balot
Book Description
This wide-ranging history of ancient
Greek political thought shows what ancient political texts might mean
to citizens of the twenty-first century.
A provocative and wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought.
Demonstrates what ancient Greek works of political philosophy might mean to citizens of the twenty-first century.
Examines
an array of poetic, historical, and philosophical texts in an effort to
locate Greek political thought in its cultural context.
Pays careful attention to the distinctively ancient connections between politics and ethics.
Structured
around key themes such as the origins of political thought, political
self-definition, revolutions in political thought, democracy and
imperialism. (Amazon.Com)
Greek and Persian Wars 500-323 BC
In the early 5th century BC, after the fall of the
Lydian Empire, the Persian Wars began. It was an ideological conflict
which pitted a proud, democratic, freedom-loving people against a
tyrannical and mighty empire. The stories of the many battles fought
between the Greeks and the Persians are here splendidly brought to life
by Jack Cassin-Scott, who details the tactics, organisation and
uniforms of the armies of both sides in a volume featuring numerous
illustrations and museum photographs, plus eight full page colour
plates superbly drawn by the author himself.
Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought by R. J. Hankinson R. J. Hankinson traces the history of
ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation, from its
earliest beginnings around 600 BC through to the middle of the first
millennium of the Christian era. The ancient Greeks were the first
Western civilization to subject the ideas of cause and explanation to
rigorous and detailed analysis, and to attempt to construct theories
about them on the basis of logic and experience. Hankinson examines the
ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why things happen
as and when they do, about the basic constitution and structure of
things, about function and purpose, laws of nature, chance,
coincidence, and responsibility. Such diverse questions are unified by
the fact that they are all demands for an account of the world that
will render it amenable to prediction and control; they are therefore
at the root of both philosophical and scientific enquiry. Hankinson
draws on a wide range of original sources, in philosophy, natural
sciences, medicine, history, and the law, in order to create a synoptic
picture of the growth and development of these central concepts in the
Graeco-Roman world. (Amazon.com).
Anatomical terms are the vocabulary of medicine. Anatomy began as a descriptive science in the days when Latin was the universal scientific language. Early anatomists described the structures they saw in that language, comparing them to common and familiar objects, or borrowing terms from the Greek and Arabic masters before them. In anatomic terminology, common Latin or Greek words are used as such for any part of the body for which the ancients had a name. For many other structures, scientific names have been invented either by using certain classical words which appear to be descriptive of the part concerned, or commonly, by combining Greek or Latin roots to form a new compound term. Memorization of such terms without understanding their meaning can lead to mental indigestion.
