Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Konig, Jason

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316849545
• Artikelnr.: 47903271

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: self-assertion and its alternatives in ancient scientific
and technical writing Jason König; 2. Philosophical authority in the
Imperial period Michael Trapp; 3. Philosophical authority in the Younger
Seneca Harry Hine; 4. Iurisperiti: 'men skilled in law' Jill Harries; 5.
Making and defending claims to authority in Vitruvius' De architectura
Daniel Harris-McCoy; 6. Fragile expertise and the authority of the past:
the 'Roman art of war' Marco Formisano; 7. Conflicting models of authority
and expertise in Frontinus' Strategemata Alice König; 8. The authority of
writing in Varro's De re rustica Aude Doody; 9. The limits of enquiry in
Imperial Greek didactic poetry Emily Kneebone; 10. Expertise, 'character',
and the 'authority effect' in the Early Roman History of Dionysius of
Halicarnassus Nicolas Wiater; 11. The authority of Galen's witnesses Daryn
Lehoux; 12. Anatomy and aporia in Galen's On the Construction of Fetuses
Ralph M. Rosen; 13. Varro the Roman Cynic: the destruction of religious
authority in the Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum Leah Kronenberg; 14. Signs,
seers and senators: divinatory expertise in Cicero and Nigidius Figulus
Katharina Volk; 15. The public face of expertise: utility, zeal, and
collaboration in Ptolemy's Syntaxis Johannes Wietzke; 16. The authority of
mathematical expertise and the question of ancient writing more geometrico
Reviel Netz; 17. Authority and expertise: some cross-cultural comparisons
G. E. R. Lloyd.