This seminar series draws on primary and secondary sources to examine structures and techniques of argument, persuasion, and rhetoric in early Chinese and Greek texts in comparative perspective through a range of topics across several disciplines. We will also discuss the methodology of comparison. Seminar information Please note that at this time, venue and hybrid information is TBC. Date Title Wed 17 Sep Thinking about ways of thinking: Indirection, Greek μῆτις, and Chinese wu wei 無為 Wed 24 Sep Divination and Risk in Early China and Greece: Evidence from Dodona and Shuihudi Wed 1 Oct Gendered Skill: Chinese and Greek Skill-Knowledge Analogies from Archery and Weaving Wed 8 Oct Matteo Ricci's Greek Sources and Chinese Writings Wed 15 Oct When Virtues, Roles and Duties Fail: Early Greek and Chinese Accounts of Akrasia Wed 22 Oct Human and Animal in China and Greece Wed 12 Nov The Height of Heaven or the Circumference of the Earth: Two Chinese and Greek Perspectives Wed 19 Nov Body-Mind Metaphors in Greece and China. Wed 26 Nov The Invention of the Body in Greece and China This article was published on 2025-06-25
