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Authority and expertise in ancient scientific culture /
How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : self-assertion and its alternatives in ancient scientific and technical writing / Jason König
- Philosophical authority in the imperial period / Michael Trapp
- Philosophical authority in the younger Seneca / Harry Hine
- Iurisperiti : 'men skilled in law' / Jill Harries
- Making and defending claims to authority in Vitruvius' De architectura / Daniel Harris-McCoy
- Fragile expertise and the authority of the past : the 'Roman art of war' / Marco Formisano
- Conflicting models of authority and expertise in Frontinus' Strategemata / Alice König
- The authority of writing in Varro's De re rustica / Aude Doody
- The limits of enquiry in imperial Greek didactice poetry / Emily Kneebone
- Ecpertise, 'character' and the 'authority effect' in the Early Roman history of Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Nicolas Wiater
- The authority of Galen's witnesses / Daryn Lehoux
- Anatomy and Aporia in Galen's On the construction of Fetuses / Ralph M. Rosen
- Varro the Roman cynic : the destruction of religious authority in the Antiquitates rerum divinarum / Leah Kronenberg
- Signs, seers and senatros : divinatory expertise in Cicero and Nigidius Figulus / Katharina Volk
- The public face of expertise : utility, zeal and collaboration in Prolemy's Syntaxis / Johannes Wietzke
- The authority of mathematical expertise and the question of ancient writing More geometrico / Reviel Netz
- Authority and expertise : some cross-cultural comparisons / G.E.R. Lloyd.