The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
by Steven Shankman, Stephen Durrant
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A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including Homer's ""Odyssey"", the ancient Chinese ""Classic of Poetry"", Thucydides' ""History of the Peloponnesian War"", Sima Qian's ""Records of the Historian"", Plato's show more ""Symposium"", and Laozi's ""Dao de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi"". The intention, through such jux show lessTags
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Steven Shankman holds the UNESCO Chair in Tram-cultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He is codirector of the UNESCO Crossings Institute for Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict-Sensitive Reporting at the University of Oregon.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 880.9001 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek literature and literatures of related Hellenic languages History and criticism of Greek literature
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- PA3070 .S53 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Literary history
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