Ekphrasis is familiar as a rhetorical tool for inducing enargeia, the vivid sense that a reader or listener is actually in the presence of the objects described

This book analyzes the rhetorical and visual strategies used in technical texts and non-technical literature to describe technological artifacts.

This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic, including their reception in

The first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating a wide range of types of evidence.

In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern