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Technology and Society in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
Tracey Rihll
Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture, Issue: 1st
Swansea University Author: Tracey Rihll
Abstract
This book describes well developed and significant technologies of the ancient Greeks and Romans in culturally critical domains. It emphasizes technological variation, mobility, diffusion and development, failure, and endurance, focusing on everyday technologies that were embodied in the material cu...
| Published in: | Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture |
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| ISBN: | 978-0872292017 |
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Washington DC
The American Historical Association and the Society for the History of technology
2013
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa15131 |
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| Abstract: |
This book describes well developed and significant technologies of the ancient Greeks and Romans in culturally critical domains. It emphasizes technological variation, mobility, diffusion and development, failure, and endurance, focusing on everyday technologies that were embodied in the material culture of the lives of relatively large numbers of people. It argues that technology was the sine qua non of ancient Greek and Roman culture. There are chapters on the production and distribution of food, the collection and distribution of water, the construction of public and private buildings, textile production, mining and metallurgy. The substantive chapters are preceeded by a theoretical discussion, on the mechanisms of productivity and growth in ancient economies. The text is supported with colour illustrations of surviving material. |
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| Keywords: |
History, history of technology, social history, material culture, ancient Greece, ancient Rome. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1st |