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020 _a9781315511351
037 _bTaylor & Francis
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100 1 _aBenjamin Farrington
245 1 0 _aScience and Politics in the Ancient World
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260 _aOxford
_bRoutledge
_c20160825
300 _a246 p
520 _bThis book, originally published in 1965, discusses the political implication of the spread of science in antiquity. It reveals how the real Greek spirit of scientific research was crushed by Plato and Aristotle, long thought-of as searchers for truth. Historian such as Polybius and Livey and the poets Pinder and Virgil are seen in a new light when set against this background of social struggle.
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