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Author Shankman, Steven

Title Siren and the Sage : Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
Published London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Intimations of intentionality: the Classic of Poetry and the Odyssey; Part II: Before and after philosophy: Thucydides and Sima Qian; Part III: The philosopher, the sage, and the experience of participation; Afterwords; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 "Symposium", and Laozi's "Dao de Jing and the writings of
Bibliography BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism
Chinese literature -- To 221 B.C. -- History and criticism
Comparative literature -- Greek and Chinese
Comparative literature -- Chinese and Greek
Philosophy, Ancient.
Chinese literature
Greek literature
Intellectual life
Philosophy, Ancient
SUBJECT Greece -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057109
China -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024139
Subject China
Greece
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Durrant, Stephen
ISBN 9781847141842
1847141846
1281291897
9781281291899