The Siren and the Sage

by Stephen Durrant and Steven Shankman

Book Overview

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 the second century BCE, including Homer's "Odyssey", the ancient Chinese "Classic of Poetry", Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War", Sima Qian's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030470640X
• ISBN13: 9780304706402
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"