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Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture

Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316849066
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture

Author : Jason König
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316849781
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture written by Jason König and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ancient scientific writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that question for a wide range of disciplines

Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire

Author : Claire Bubb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192898612
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire written by Claire Bubb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields through three avenues. First, it argues that the literatures produced by elite practitioners, like Galen or Ulpian, were not merely utilitarian, but were pieces of aesthetically inflected literature and thus carried all of the disparate baggage linked to any form of literature in the Roman context. Second, it suggests that while one element of that literary luggage was the socio-political competition that these texts facilitated, high stakes agonism also uniquely marked the quotidian practice of both medicine and law, resulting in both fields coming to function as forms of popular public entertainment. Finally, it shows how the effects of rhetoric and the deeply rhetorical education of the elite made themselves constantly apparent in both the literature on and the practice of medicine and law. Through case studies in both fields and on each of these topics, together with contextualizing essays, Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire suggests that the blanket results of all this were profound. The introduction to the volume argues that medicine was not contrived merely to ensure healing of the infirm by doctors, and law did not single-mindedly aim to regulate society in a consistent, orderly, and binding fashion. Instead, both fields, in the full range of their manifestations, were nested in a complex matrix of social, political, and intellectual crosscurrents, all of which served to shape the very substances of these fields themselves. This poses forward-looking questions: What things might ancient Roman medicine and law have been meant or geared to accomplish in their world? And how might the very substance of Roman medicine and law have been crafted with an eye to fulfilling those peculiarly ancient needs and desires? This book suggests that both fields, in their ancient manifestations, differed fundamentally from their modern counterparts, and must be approached with this fact firmly in mind.

MISCELLANEA PHILOLOGICA GRAECA ET LATINA. IN HONOREM FLORICAE BECHET

Author :
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
ISBN 13 : 6061612729
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book MISCELLANEA PHILOLOGICA GRAECA ET LATINA. IN HONOREM FLORICAE BECHET written by and published by Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumul de față a prins contur cu mai mulți ani în urmă, la ceas aniversar, ca recunoaștere a confraților, omagiu adus de discipoli, dar al prietenilor închinat clasicistei Florica Bechet.

On Expertise

Author : Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271093137
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book On Expertise written by Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a deep distrust of experts in America today. Influenced by populist politics, many question or downright ignore the recommendations of scientists, scholars, and others with specialized training. It appears that expertise, a critical component of democratic life, no longer appeals to wide swaths of the body politic. On Expertise is a robust defense of the expert class. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher examines modern and ancient theories of expertise through the lens of rhetoric and interviews some forty professionals, revealing how they understand their own expertise and how they came to be known as “experts.” She shows that expertise requires not only knowledge and skill but also, crucially, an acknowledgment by others—both specialists and laypeople—that one is a credible authority. At its heart, expertise is a rhetorical construct, and to be persuasive, experts must have the ability to apply their knowledge and skills rightly—in the right way, at the right time, to achieve the right end. Ultimately, Mehlenbacher argues that experts apply their technical knowledge effectively and win others’ trust through acting prudently and cultivating goodwill. Timely, practical, and sophisticated, On Expertise provides vital scaffolding for our understanding of expertise and its real-world application. This book is essential for beginning the work of rehabilitating the expert class amid a politics of extreme populism and anti-intellectualism.

Greek and Roman Military Manuals

Author : James T. Chlup
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429813686
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Military Manuals written by James T. Chlup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as ‘technical literature’), and the degree to which they reflect the practice of warfare. With contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the chapters examine military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering a wide range of topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Coverage includes most of the major contemporary siege manual writers, including Xenophon, Frontinus, Vegetius, and Maurice. Close examination of these texts serves to reveals the complex ways in which ancient Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines sought to understand better, and impose order upon, the seemingly irrational phenomenon known as war. Providing insight into the multifaceted collection of texts that constituted military manuals, this volume is a key resource for students and scholars of warfare and military literature in the classical and Byzantine periods.

Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108580092
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture written by Reviel Netz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative 'author' in the archaic symposium through the 'polis of letters' enabled by Athenian democracy and into the Hellenistic era, where one's space mattered and culture became bifurcated between Athens and Alexandria. This duality was reconfigured into an eclectic variety consumed by Roman patrons and predicated on scale, with about a thousand authors active at any given moment. As patronage dried up in the third century CE, scale collapsed and literary culture was reduced to the teaching of a narrower field of authors, paving the way for the Middle Ages. The result is a new history of ancient culture which is sociological, quantitative, and all-encompassing, cutting through eras and genres.

Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome

Author : Edmund Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108839479
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Edmund Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to reassess ancient Greek and Roman society and its economy in examining skilled labour and professionalism.

The Enclosure of Knowledge

Author : James D. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517985
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Enclosure of Knowledge written by James D. Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.

Harmony and Symmetry. Celestial regularities shaping human culture.

Author : Gudrun Wolfschmidt
Publisher : tredition
ISBN 13 : 3347146344
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Harmony and Symmetry. Celestial regularities shaping human culture. written by Gudrun Wolfschmidt and published by tredition. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the SEAC conference in Graz (2018) and for the Proceedings the motto "Harmony and symmetry - celestial regularities shaping human culture" was chosen. There were at least two strong reasons for this motto: First, the connection between astronomy and human culture has an extremely long tradition, and one of its absolute high points is the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who spent his entire life searching for the relationship between the movement of heavenly lights and ideas about harmonious structures and regular bodies. Kepler started his scientific career and authored his first book, the Mysterium cosmographicum, in Graz. Kepler argued in his first publication for the twelve-fold partition of the zodiac with arguments derived from the monochord, anticipating the procedure he developed in his Harmonices mundi. Five contributions deal with Kepler, including the harmony in musical theory. The second reason was the Eggenberg Castle. This palace, built for the nobleman Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg (1568-1634), is a remarkable piece of symmetry and harmony and an outstanding example of a strong connection between astronomy and culture. Seven contributions have the topic astronomy, astrology and architecture with the emphasis on astronomical orientation, symmetry and harmony in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Proceedings with ten chapters and 44 contributions range besides the mentioned "Middle Ages and beyond" and Johannes Kepler from Prehistoric Times, Bronze and Iron Age, Mythology and Ethnoastronomy, Babylonian Astronomy, Greek and Roman Astronomy, Meso- and South America, Middle East and Eastern Asia and Computational Astronomy. The celestial sphere, regarded as the sky of astronomy, as well as the heaven of divine numina, from Antiquity to Copernicus and Kepler was equated with symmetry, harmony, and beauty. Until today, this has been reflected in the structure of cultural creations, from architectural objects to musical forms.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

Author : Liba Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107092485
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science written by Liba Taub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.

Scientific Visual Representations in History

Author : Matteo Valleriani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031113179
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Visual Representations in History written by Matteo Valleriani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific visualizations, such as video recordings, animations, simulations, graphs, and enhanced realities. The volume collects historical reflections concerned with the use of visual material, visualization, and vision in science from a historical perspective, ranging across multiple cultures from antiquity until present day. The focus is on visual representations such as drawings, prints, tables, mathematical symbols, photos, data visualizations, mapping processes, and (on a meta-level) visualizations of data extracted from historical sources to visually support the historical research itself. Continuity and ruptures between the past and present use of visual material are presented against the backdrop of the epistemic functions of visual material in science. The function of visual material is defined according to three major epistemic categories: exploration, transformation, and transmission of knowledge.

Future Thinking in Roman Culture

Author : Maggie L. Popkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000515559
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Future Thinking in Roman Culture written by Maggie L. Popkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture. This volume opens a new avenue of investigation for Roman memory studies in presenting multiple case studies of memory and commemoration as future-thinking phenomena. It breaks new ground by bringing classical studies into direct dialogue with recent research on cognitive processes of future thinking. The thematically linked but methodologically diverse contributions, all by leading scholars who have published significant work in memory studies of antiquity, both cultural and cognitive, make the volume well suited for classical studies scholars and students seeking to explore cognitive science and philosophy of mind in ancient contexts, with special appeal to those sharing the growing interest in investigating Roman conceptions of futurity and time. The chapters all deliberately coalesce around the central theme of prospection and future thinking and their impact on our understanding of Roman ritual and religion, politics, and individual motivation and intention. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of classics, art history, archaeology, history, and religious studies, as well as scholars and students of memory studies, historical and cultural cognitive studies, psychology, and philosophy.

Dionysius and the City of Rome

Author : Beatrice Poletti
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793655073
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Dionysius and the City of Rome written by Beatrice Poletti and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Dionysius of Halicarnassus' description of Rome's 'founders' and situates Dionysius' historical work in the cultural and political contexts of Augustan Rome. Beatrice Poletti examines Dionysius' methods and engagement with his sources to illustrate the significance of his work in his contemporary intellectual milieu.

Jewish Culture and Creativity

Author : Eitan P. Fishbane
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Culture and Creativity written by Eitan P. Fishbane and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.

Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235

Author : Alice König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493939
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235 written by Alice König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovers new connections and cross-fertilisations between different cultural, linguistic and religious communities in the Roman Empire.

Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History

Author : Aaron Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110627302
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History written by Aaron Turner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves to address this apparent deficit. Its scope is three-fold. Firstly, it aims at encountering ancient modes of historical and historiographical thought within the province of their own horizon. Secondly, this book considers the possibility of a dialogue between ancient and modern philosophies of history concerning the influence of ancient historical thought on the development of modern philosophy of history and the utility of modern philosophy of history in the interpretation of ancient historiography. Thirdly, this book explores the continuities and discontinuities in historical method and thought from antiquity to modernity. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the necessity of re-evaluating our assumptions about the relation of ancient and modern historical thought and lays the groundwork for a more fruitful dialogue in the future.