A new volume titled Ancient Greece and China Compared was recently published by Cambridge University Press, edited by G. E. R. Lloyd and Jingyi Jenny Zhao. The title features fourteen essays that compare different aspects of ancient Greece and China from an interdisciplinary perspective, together with an introduction by G. E. R. Lloyd and an afterword by Michael Loewe. Those interested may like to access the book’s webpage on the CUP website here.
Table of Content
Introduction Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects
Geoffrey LLOYD
Part 1 Methodological Issues and Goals
Chapter 1 Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others
Nathan SIVIN
Chapter 2 Comparing Comparisons
Walter SCHEIDEL
Chapter 3 On the Very Idea of Translation
Robert WARDY
Part 2 Philosophy and Religion
Chapter 4 Freedom in Parts of the Zhuangzi and Epictetus
Richard KING
Chapter 5 Shame and Moral Education in Aristotle and Xunzi
Jingyi Jenny ZHAO
Chapter 6 Human and Animal in Early China and Greece
Lisa RAPHALS
Chapter 7 Genealogies of Gods, Ghosts, and Humans: the Capriciousness of the Divine in Early Greece and Early China
Michael PUETT
Part 3 Art and Literature
Chapter 8 Visual Art and Historical Representation in Ancient Greece and China
Jeremy TANNER
Chapter 9 Helen and Chinese Femmes Fatales
ZHOU Yiqun
Part 4 Mathematics and Life Sciences
Chapter 10 Divisions, Big and Small: Comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui
Reviel NETZ
Chapter 11 Abstraction as a Value in the Historiography of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and China
Karine CHEMLA
Chapter 12 Recipes for Love in the Ancient World
Vivienne LO and Eleanor RE’EM
Part 5 Agriculture, Planning and Institutions
Chapter 13 From the Harvest to the Meal in Prehistoric China and Greece: a Comparative Approach to the Social Context of Food
LIU Xinyi, Evi MARGARITIS, Martin JONES
Chapter 14 On Libraries and Manuscript Culture in Western Han Chang’an and Alexandria
Michael NYLAN
Afterword Michael LOEWE
