Milorad Nikolic is associate professor in the Department of Classics at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St.

Sherwood is associate professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph, Canada. This new and revised edition of Greek and Roman Technology will remain an important and vital resource for students of technology in the ancient world, as well as those studying the impact of technological change on classical society. Almost 100 line-drawings, indexes of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and current bibliographies are included.

This fully revised Sourcebook collects more than 1,300 passages from over 200 ancient sources and a diverse range of literary genres, such as the encyclopaedic Natural History of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Lucretius, the agricultural treatises of Varro, Columella, and Cato, the military texts of Philo of Byzantium and Aeneas Tacticus, as well as the medical texts of Galen, Celsus, and the Hippocratic Corpus.

Among the topics covered are energy, basic mechanical devices, hydraulic engineering, household industry, medicine and health, transport and trade, and military technology. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology.

Greek and Roman Technology In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Table of contents : List of illustrations ix Preface to the second edition xii Extract from the preface and acknowledgements of the first edition xv List of abbreviations xviii Introduction 1 1 The rise of humans and human technology 12 2 Sources of energy and basic mechanical devices 34 3 Agriculture 88 4 Food processing 158 5 Mining and quarrying 185 6 Metallurgy 221 7 Sculpture 252 8 Construction engineering 266 9 Hydraulic engineering 335 10 Household crafts, health and well-being, and workshop production 388 11 Transport and trade 508 12 Record-keeping 621 13 Military technology 664 14 Attitudes towards labour, innovation, and technology 709 Indexes 732 Citation preview

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