Ancient Greece and China Compared - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Notes on Editions

pp xi-xii

Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects

pp 1-30

Part I - Methodological Issues and Goals

pp 31-80

1 - Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others

pp 33-39

2 - Comparing Comparisons

pp 40-58

3 - On the Very Idea of (Philosophical?) Translation

pp 59-80

Part II - Philosophy and Religion

pp 81-186

4 - Freedom in Parts of the Zhuangzi and Epictetus

pp 83-109

5 - Shame and Moral Education in Aristotle and Xunzi

pp 110-130

6 - Human and Animal in Early China and Greece

pp 131-159

7 - Genealogies of Gods, Ghosts and Humans: The Capriciousness of the Divine in Early Greece and Early China

pp 160-186

Part III - Art and Literature

pp 187-256

8 - Visual Art and Historical Representation in Ancient Greece and China

pp 189-233

9 - Helen and Chinese Femmes Fatales

pp 234-256

Part IV - Mathematics and Life Sciences

pp 257-352

10 - Divisions, Big and Small: Comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui

pp 259-289

11 - Abstraction as a Value in the Historiography of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and China: A Historical Approach to Comparative History of Mathematics

pp 290-325

12 - Recipes for Love in the Ancient World

pp 326-352

Part V - Agriculture, Planning and Institutions

pp 353-409

13 - From the Harvest to the Meal in Prehistoric China and Greece: A Comparative Approach to the Social Context of Food

pp 355-372

14 - On Libraries and Manuscript Culture in Western Han Chang’an and Alexandria

pp 373-409

Afterword

pp 410-419

Index

pp 420-430