The unknown technology in Homer [electronic resource] / S.A. Paipetis.
The astonishing accounts of almost modern technological achievements found in the Homeric Epics constitute one of the so-called Homeric Issues. The question is whether such achievements existed in reality or whether they were just poetic conceptions. Both views have their followers and adversaries....
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| Other title: | Agnōstē technologia ston Homēro. English |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2010.
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| Series: | History of mechanism and machine science ;
v. 9. |
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Table of Contents:
- Homer and the Homeric Epics
- Troy and the Mythological Causes of the War
- Achilles and the M?nis
- The Siege and Fall of Troy
- Odysseus’ Long Way Home
- Trojan War and Cultural Tradition
- Scientific Knowledge in the Homeric Epics
- On Science and Technology
- Principles of Natural Science
- Chariot Racing and the Laws of Curvilinear Motion
- Creep in Wood
- Hydrodynamics of Vortices and the Gravitational Sling
- Automation and Artificial Intelligence
- The Forge of Hephaestus
- The Robots of Hephaestus
- The Ships of the Phaeacians and the UAVs
- Defensive Weapons in the Epics
- Structural Materials and Analytical Processes
- The Shield of Achilles
- The Shield of Ajax
- More Defensive Weapons
- Further Issues
- The Trojan Horse
- Mycenaean Building
- The Miraculous Homeric Meter.