Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Anthropogony and Politogony in Anaximander of Miletus Gerard Naddaf Prologue The Origin of Humanity in Traditional (or Mythical) Thought The Origin of Animals and Humanity According to Anaximander The Origin of Society According to Mythical Accounts Some Reflections on the Evolution of the Polis before Anaximander The Emergence of the Polis and the Invention of Politics The Origin and Development of Society in Anaximander The Legend of Danaus, the Danaides, and History Danaus and the Alphabet Anaximander's Map: The Canvas of the Oikoumene Notes Proportions and Numbers in Anaximander and Early Greek Thought Robert Hahn Prologue Proportionality in Anaximander's Cosmic Architecture Proportionality and Numbers in Archaic ArchitectureThe Number "3" and Architectural Trisecting The Idea of Organic Growth in Sacred Architecture Metrological Studies of Ancient Buildings Wesenberg's Case for the Canon of Ionic Proportions: 1:9 not 1:10 Schaber's Case Study of the Archaic Artemision: Proportion, Numbers, and Organic Growth The Temple's Inner Built Structure is Usually 3:1--The Metrologies of the Archaic Temples in Samos and Didyma Literary Formulas and Proportionalities Sculptural Formulas and Polykleitos' Canon Anaximander's Cosmic Formula Revisited The Architect's Design Formula The Architect's Design Formula and the Cosmic Meaning of the Roof Epilogue Notes The Discovery of Space: Anaximander's Astronomy Dirk L. Couprie Prologue First Exercises in Early Greek Astronomy: The Anachronistic Fallacy More Exercises in Early Greek Astronomy: Looking at the Heavens with the Naked Eye A Further Exercise in Early Greek Astronomy: Looking at the Heavens with the Help of a Gnomon A Last Exercise in Early Greek Astronomy: Anaximander's Map of the World Anaximander's Big Achievement: The Discovery of Space The Celestial Bodies Make Full Circles around the Earth The Earth Floats Unsupported in Space The Celestial Bodies Lie behind One Another Anaximander's Numbers and a Map of His Universe Wheels in Space: A Three-Dimensional Visualization of Anaximander's Universe Anaximander and the Representation of the Heavens in Ptolemaic Egyptian Art Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index of Concepts and Proper Names Index of Classical Passages Cited

About the Author

Dirk L. Couprie is an independent researcher and former Associate Professor at the University of Leiden. Robert Hahn is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of several books, including Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press. Gerard Naddaf is Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto and the author of The Greek Concept of Nature, also published by SUNY Press.