Ancient Greece and China Compared

Introduction G. E. R. Lloyd; Part I. Methodological Issues and Goals: 1. Why some comparisons make more difference than others Nathan Sivin; 2. Comparing comparisons Walter Scheidel; 3. On the very idea of (philosophical?) translation Robert Wardy; Part II. Philosophy and Religion: 4. Freedom in parts of the Zhuangzi and Epictetus R. A. H. King; 5. Shame and moral education in Aristotle and Xunzi Jingyi Jenny Zhao; 6. Human and animal in early China and Greece Lisa Raphals; 7. Genealogies of ghosts, gods and humans: the capriciousness of the Divine in early Greece and China Michael Puett; Part III. Art and Literature: 8. Visual art and historical representation in Ancient Greece and China Jeremy Tanner; 9. Helen and Chinese femmes fatales Yiqun Zhou; Part IV. Mathematics and Life Sciences: 10. Divisions, big and small: comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui Reviel Netz; 11. Abstraction as a value in the historiography of mathematics in Ancient Greece and China Karine Chemla; 12. Recipes for love in the ancient world Vivienne Lo and Eleanor Re'em; Part V. Agriculture, Planning and Institutions: 13. From the harvest to the meal in prehistoric China and Greece: a comparative approach to the social context of food Xinyi Liu, Evi Margaritis and Martin Jones; 14. On libraries and manuscript culture in Western Han Chang'an and Alexandria Michael Nylan; Afterword Michael Loewe.