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Peter Karavites presents a revisionist overview of Homeric scholarship, bridging the gap between the “positivist” and “negativist” theories dominant in the greater part of the twentieth century. His investigation derives new insights from Homer’s text and solves the age-old question of the relationship between Homer and the Mycenaean age. He boldly provides a new interpretation of the diplomatic relations of the Mycenaean and Homeric times based on fresh textual examination of old archaeological material, new archaeological discoveries, and a much broader analytical focus, emphasizing social, economic, political, and cultural approaches that have transformed our understanding of ancient interstate relations contained in the Homeric Corpus. The author underscores the similarities between the Near Eastern diplomatic practices as well as practices analyzed in Homeric texts to highlight the relationship between Homeric times and the Mycenaean Age. Bronze Age and Homeric diplomatic envoy customs are treated in a series of chapters pertaining to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the littoral of the Eastern Mediterranean area, and the Aegean world. They treat practices such as envoy escorts, envoy protection and hospitality, symbolism of gift exchanges, royal marriages alliances, envoy credentials, and various other practices, and will be of interest to scholars and students of history, political science, diplomacy, archaeology and social relations.

Bronze age --- Homer --- Knowledge --- Diplomacy. --- Middle East --- Foreign relations. --- Homère --- Âge du bronze --- Moyen-Orient

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A une époque où disparaît la philosophie, l'urgence se fait sentir d'en explorer les limites, non pour la ressusciter, mais pour comprendre ce qui a été possible sans elle et avant elle. Plutôt que de s'épuiser à reconstituer un corpus à jamais fragmentaire, à jamais dépendant du dernier papyrus découvert, on choisit dans cet ouvrage d'explorer, dans une langue parlée avant l'avènement des philosophes, la récurrence de certains mots que nous traduisons aujourd'hui par " infini ", " limite ", " un ", " multiple ". En examinant ces termes en amont de la philosophie, en les replongeant dans le terreau de la langue parlée par les " poètes ", on découvre qu'ils prennent sens dans un ensemble d'images qui structure la réflexion et l'expérience des anciens Grecs et constitue ce qu'on peut appeler un schématisme. Or, le schème qui opère dans tous les domaines, de l'art du charpentier à celui de l'aède, de la physiologie à la cosmologie est celui de l'harmonie. En traquant le schème de l'harmonie à travers la philologie, l'histoire des sciences et des techniques comme la musique, la physiologie ou l'astronomie, l'ouvrage retrace le cheminement souvent non linéaire qui conduit du schème homérique de l'harmonie, à ses modification ; chez les auteurs tels qu'Héraclite, Empédocle, Parménide, Zénon, ou les Pythagoriciens. Abordé dans la perspective d'une anthropologie de la technique, chacun des auteurs examinés illustre une manière de fabriquer une balle qui concrétise sa démarche. On découvre ainsi que dans le premier schème de l'harmonie matérialisée par le cercle rabouté et la sphère, le mot " infini " désigne la circularité parfaite, alors que quelques siècles plus tard le même mot sert à désigner l'Intervalle des relatifs quand harmoniser revient à unifier. Les représentations éthiques sous-jacentes aux épistémologies de l'harmonie sont ainsi mises en lumière : l'auteur montre que si chez Homère, l'harmonie, en opérant au moyen de la cheville ou de l'agrafe, a pour effet de préserver le multiple dans ses manifestations singulières, il n'en est plus de même à l'aube du Ve siècle où le multiple se voit réduit à la différence comparative, dans une harmonie de la proportion d'où il devint à jamais impossible de penser la diversité sans l'assimiler au risque de désordre. Au fil de cette étude, le lecteur est amené à comprendre les enjeux réels de la question de l'harmonie, abordée pour la première fois comme la question des limites de la philosophie.

Harmony (Philosophy) --- Harmony (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Harmonie (Philosophie) --- Harmonie (Esthétique) --- Philosophie ancienne --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Harmonie (Esthétique) --- Harmonie --- Harmonie (esthétique) --- Philosophie grecque --- Littérature grecque --- Homère (08..?-08..?-av.-J.-C.) --- Platon (0427?-0348?-av.-J.-C.) --- Antiquité --- Histoire et critique --- Harmonie (esthétique) --- Littérature grecque --- Homère (08..?-08..?-av.-J.-C.) --- Antiquité

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Tragic, The, in literature. --- Homer --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tragic, The, in literature --- Homeros --- Homère --- Homerus --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero

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A highly innovative study analysing Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern evolutionary biology.

Civilization, Homeric. --- Human evolution in literature. --- Sex distribution (Demography) --- Trojan War --- War in literature. --- History. --- Literature and the war. --- Civilization, Homeric --- Human evolution in literature --- War in literature --- Gender distribution (Demography) --- Demography --- Homeric civilization --- History --- Literature and the war --- Homer --- Homeros --- Homère --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Homerus --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero

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In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.

Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Materials sciences --- Production management --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- Engineering design. --- History. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Design --- Engineering Design. --- History of Science. --- History, general. --- Homer --- Knowledge --- Technology --- Greece --- Antiquities --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homère --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- Homerus --- Mechanical engineering --- Science --- Civilization, Homeric --- History