Main entry:

Hahn, Robert, 1952-

Title & Author:

Anaximander and the architects : the contributions of Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies to the origins of Greek philosophy / Robert Hahn.

Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.

Description:

xxiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Philosophy -- The Problem and the Three Tiers of Explanation -- The Conventional View and Its Discontents -- The New Contributing Thesis: Technology as Politics -- The Ionian Philosophers and Architects -- Fixing Anaximander's Date: The First Philosophical Book in Prose -- Archaic Prose Writing: Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions -- Prose in Archaic Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander, Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes -- The New Connection: The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek Architects of the Archaic Period -- An Overview of Monumental Temple Projects in Archaic Ionia -- The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices -- The Techniques of the Ancient Architects -- The Evidence for Imagining in Plan or Aerial View -- The Evidence for Models -- The Theory of Proportions -- The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion -- Anaximander's Techniques -- Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques -- Homer's World Picture -- Hesiod's World Picture -- Anaximander's World Picture: The Plan or Aerial View -- Anaximander's World Picture: Three-dimensional Views--The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views -- Technology as Politics: the Origins of Greek Philosophy in Its Sociopolitical Context -- Re-Framing the New Narrative Account -- The Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples -- Technology as Politics: The "Argument" for the Appropriation of Civic Authority.

Summary:

"Uses textual and archaeological evidence to argue that emerging Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies were crucial to the origins and development of Greek philosophy. The evidence, coming directly from sixth century b.c.e. building sites and bypassing Aristotle, shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. Their technological innovations and design techniques formed the core of an experimental science and promoted a rational, not mythopoetical, discourse central to our understanding of the context in which early Greek philosophy emerged. Anaximander's prose book and his rationalizing mentality are illuminated in surprising ways by appeal to the ongoing, extraordinary projects of the archaic architects and their practical techniques" --back cover,.

ISBN:

0791447936 (alk. paper)
9780791447932 (alk. paper)
0791447944 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791447949 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Anaximander.
Anaximander, of Miletus, fl. 600 B.C.
Anaximandre.
Anaximander Milesius v610-v546
Anaximander (Milesius)
Architecture, Ancient Egypt Influence.
Architecture, Ancient Greece Influence.
Architecture antique Égypte Influence.
Architecture antique Grèce Influence.
Architektur
Philosophie
Bouwkunst.
Filosofie.
Klassieke oudheid.
Egypt.
Greece.
Griechenland
Ägypten

Added entries:

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218615
Call No.: B208.Z7 H3 2001
Status: Available