Aristotle's Classification of Animals
Aristotle's Classification of Animals

Author: Pierre Pellegrin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0520330412

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Science, Folklore and Ideology
Science, Folklore and Ideology

Author: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781853996030

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This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority of the female sex on medical practice, pharmacology and anatomy. Anthropology is used to provide a comparative dimension to the discussion of ancent Greek popular beliefs.