Robert Hahn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
List of Illustrations
xi
Preface
xvii
Introduction
1
(14)
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Philosophy
15
(32)
The Problem and the Three Tiers of Explanation
15
(6)
The Conventional View and Its Discontents
21
(18)
The New Contributing Thesis: Technology as Politics
39
(8)
The Ionian Philosophers and Architects
47
(50)
Fixing Anaximander's Date: The First Philosophical Book in Prose
47
(3)
Archaic Prose Writing: Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions
50
(5)
Prose in Archaic Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander, Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes
55
(11)
The New Connection: The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek Architects of the Archaic Period
66
(3)
An Overview of Monumental Temple Projects in Archaic Ionia
69
(17)
The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices
86
(11)
The Techniques of the Ancient Architects
97
(66)
The Evidence for Imagining in Plan or Aerial View
97
(23)
The Evidence for Models
120
(17)
The Theory of Proportions
137
(12)
The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion
149
(14)
Anaximander's Techniques
163
(56)
Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques
163
(6)
Homer's World Picture
169
(3)
Hesiod's World Picture
172
(5)
Anaximander's World Picture: The Plan or Aerial View
177
(23)
Anaximander's World Picture: Three-dimensional Views---The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views
200
(19)
Technology as Politics: The Origins of Greek Philosophy in Its Sociopolitical Context
219
(22)
Re-Framing the New Narrative Account
219
(4)
The Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples
223
(3)
Technology as Politics: The ``Argument'' for the Appropriation of Civic Authority
226
(15)
Notes
241
(54)
Bibliography
295
(20)
Index
315
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