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" The siren and the sage : "
Steven Shankman and Stephen Durrant.
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BL
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1034000
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b788370
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| Main Entry
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Shankman, Steven,1947-
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The siren and the sage : : knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China /\ Steven Shankman and Stephen Durrant.
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London ;New York :: Cassell,, 2000.
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1 online resource (viii, 257 pages)
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1847141846
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: 9781847141842
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0304706396
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030470640X
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9780304706396
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9780304706402
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9781847141842
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index.
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| Abstract
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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 ""Records of the Historian"", Plato's ""Symposium"", and Laozi's ""Dao de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi"". The intention, through such jux.
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Chinese literature-- To 221 B.C.-- History and criticism.
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Comparative literature-- Chinese and Greek.
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Comparative literature-- Greek and Chinese.
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Greek literature-- History and criticism.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Chinese literature.
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Greek literature.
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Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Ancient Classical.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Filosofie.
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Letterkunde.
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Oudheid.
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China, Intellectual life.
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Greece, Intellectual life.
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China.
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Greece.
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| Dewey Classification
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880.9/001
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PA3070.S53 2000eb
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18.43bcl
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18.86bcl
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Durrant, Stephen W.,1944-
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