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Authority and expertise in ancient scientific culture / edited by Jason König and Greg Woolf.
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English
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Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
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xi, 473 pages ; 26 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
Q124.95 .A98 2017
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Science, Ancient
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Greece
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König, Jason
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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 exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite direction by looking at authors who chose to acknowledge the limitations of their own knowledge or resisted close identification with narrow versions of expert identity. A final chapter by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd offers a comparative account of scientific authority and expertise in ancient Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-462) and index.
Contents
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.
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9781107060067 ((hardcover))
1107060060 ((hardcover))
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2016023672
OCLC
951465370
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