This entry presents an overview on how mechanics in Greece was linked to geometry. In ancient Greece, about lifting heavy bodies, and mathematics almost coincided with Mathematics interconnected at least from the 5th century BCE became dominant Hellenistic period. The contributions by thinkers such as Aristotle, Euclid, Archytas fundamental problems that of lever are sketched. can be starting p...

Disease as a pivotal factor in determining the course of human events may be one og the least considered historical variables. When assessing the critical junctures of history, historians seem more inclined to focus on the impact of conquering armies, economic revolutions, and technologic breakthroughs. This analysis attempts to illustrate the seminal effects of the great plague of Athens. By d...

dilemma with potentially fatal consequences if the wrong choice were made. Both volumes together show how much has been achieved in the study of medieval medicine during the last thirty years, to which both scholars contributed greatly. It is no longer enough to edit or present a text, as if its meaning required little further elucidation or as if its significance as an index of medical progres...

from Norbert Elias's concept of the "civilizing process", Spode argues that the perception of drunkenness as a social problem came with the growing interdependences in modem western society and the demand for controlled, rational behaviour, especially after the industrial revolution. Accordingly, his book focuses on the two German temperance movements of the nineteenth century. The first one, d...

Despite its appearing to be a simple question to answer, there has been no consensus as to whether or not the alignments of ancient Greek temples reflect astronomical intentions. Here I present the results of a survey of archaic and classical Greek temples in Sicily and compare them with temples in Greece. Using a binomial test I show strong evidence that there is a preference for solar orienta...

Were the ancients Greeks “racists” in the modern sense of the term “racist”? The terms ancient Greek “proto-racism”, tribalism (and/or racism) are used here to denote the abstract, narcissistic notion that not only the non-Greek barbarians, but also certain ancient Greek tribes (like the Macedonians, the Boeoteans etc.) should be excluded from the Hellenic community, for they were considered to...

from bygone to now, colors are aspects of nature that have been regarded scientists. in ancient greece, essence of color and its relationship with light and vision in natural philosophy and especially optics has been studied. results of greek thinkers in the field chromatics, from pythagoras to aristotle through of translating scientific and philosophical texts, received to muslim scholars and ...

Scholars often speak of ancient Greek masculinity and manhood as if there were a single, monolithic, simple conception. I will show that the ancient Greeks, like us today, had competing models or constructions of gender and that what it meant to be a man was different in different contexts. I will focus on three constructions of the masculine gender in ancient (classical and post-classical) Gre...

Ancient Greek literature gives us many relevant traces of the way people represented maritime spaces. Greek narratives endow these spaces with meaning and make them legible. Indeed, these testimonies are a significant contribution to our knowledge of the “odological” space at sea, a space of description including numerous cultural features rather than a space described. This space is based on e...