
The Adventure of the Human Intellect
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Notes on Contributors vii
Series Editor's Preface xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Francesca Rochberg and Kurt A. Raaflaub
1 A Critique of the Cognitive-historical Thesis of The Intellectual Adventure 16
Francesca Rochberg
2 The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: Revisiting a Classic 29
Peter Machinist
3 The World of Ancient Egyptian Thought 73
James P. Allen
4 On Speculative Thought in Ancient Mesopotamia 89
Benjamin R. Foster
5 Self, Substance, and Social Metaphysics: The Intellectual Adventures of Israel and Judah 105
Ryan Byrne
6 Ancient Greece: Man the Measure of All Things 127
Kurt A. Raaflaub
7 The Thought-World of Ancient Rome: A Delicate Balancing Act 149
Robert A. Kaster and David Konstan
8 Self, Cosmos, and Agency in Early China 167
Lisa Raphals
9 Vedic India: Thinking and Doing 185
Stephanie W. Jamison
10 "Chronosophy" in Classic Maya Thought 198
Stephen Houston
11 The Word, Sacrifice, and Divination: Aztec Man in the Realm of the Gods 216
Guilhem Olivier
12 Night Thoughts and Spiritual Adventures: Native North America 239
Peter Nabokov
Index 000
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