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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

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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...

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Published in: Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture
ISBN: 978-0872292017
Published: Washington DC The American Historical Association and the Society for the History of technology 2013
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