Authority and expertise in ancient scientific culture

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Authority and expertise in ancient scientific culture

edited by Jason König, Greg Woolf

Cambridge University Press, 2021, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-462) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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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