The Legacy of Greece: A New AppraisalMoses I. Finley "Stressing the meaning of Greek culture in the history of European culture, these fifteen articles provide an accessible introduction to how the ancient Greeks lived and thought and how this has influenced the modern world. |
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... treatises , such as the Sectio Canonis as- cribed to Euclid , and the important collections of material in the Elements of Harmonics of Aristoxenus and Boethius ' De Institutione Musica , we have major treatises in Ptolemy's Harmonics ...
... treatises , such as the Sectio Canonis as- cribed to Euclid , and the important collections of material in the Elements of Harmonics of Aristoxenus and Boethius ' De Institutione Musica , we have major treatises in Ptolemy's Harmonics ...
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... treatises of the Hippocratic Corpus and the works of Galen . The story of the influence of ' Hippocrates ' is extraordinary . What we know as the Hippocratic Corpus consists of some sixty treatises , all anonymous , that vary widely in ...
... treatises of the Hippocratic Corpus and the works of Galen . The story of the influence of ' Hippocrates ' is extraordinary . What we know as the Hippocratic Corpus consists of some sixty treatises , all anonymous , that vary widely in ...
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... treatises are important : they include the insistence that every phenomenon has a cause , the implicit recognition of the distinction between cause and coincidence , and the clear rejection of the idea of supernatural intervention in ...
... treatises are important : they include the insistence that every phenomenon has a cause , the implicit recognition of the distinction between cause and coincidence , and the clear rejection of the idea of supernatural intervention in ...
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Lyric and Other PoetryA M Davies Bedford | 93 |
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