The Unknown Technology in Homer

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Paipetis, S. A. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Σειρά: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 9
• Θέματα: Engineering.; History.; Engineering design.; Materials science.; Structural materials.; Engineering Design.; History of Science.; Materials Science, general.; Structural Materials.

The astonishing accounts of almost modern technological achievements found in the Homeric Epics constitute one of the so-called Homeric Issues. The question is whether such achievements existed in reality or whether they were just poetic conceptions. Both views have their followers and adversaries....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Homer and the Homeric Epics
• Troy and the Mythological Causes of the War
• Achilles and the M?nis
• The Siege and Fall of Troy
• Odysseus’ Long Way Home
• Trojan War and Cultural Tradition
• Scientific Knowledge in the Homeric Epics
• On Science and Technology
• Principles of Natural Science
• Chariot Racing and the Laws of Curvilinear Motion
• Creep in Wood
• Hydrodynamics of Vortices and the Gravitational Sling
• Automation and Artificial Intelligence
• The Forge of Hephaestus
• The Robots of Hephaestus
• The Ships of the Phaeacians and the UAVs
• Defensive Weapons in the Epics
• Structural Materials and Analytical Processes
• The Shield of Achilles
• The Shield of Ajax
• More Defensive Weapons
• Further Issues
• The Trojan Horse
• Mycenaean Building
• The Miraculous Homeric Meter.