Siren and the Sage : Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China.

Siren and the Sage : Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China.

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 th...

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Main Author: Shankman, Steven
Other Authors: Durrant, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2000.
Subjects:
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.
Greece > Intellectual life.
China > Intellectual life.
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