An Overture to The Oxford Handbook: Serafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity

摘要

Serafina Cuomo produced her thoughtful but somewhat quirky book at an opportune moment. It not only offers a timely recognition of the ever-increasing popularity of the subject of ancient technology, but it is also a serious attempt to correct its long marginalization and to acknowledge all that it has to contribute to an understanding of ancient culture itself.rnUntil recently, the amateur enthusiast was hard-pressed to find a suitably detailed survey of any of the issues surrounding ancient technology or engineering. With the recent publication of The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, edited by John Peter Oleson (2008), all that has changed.