Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 304 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521859697
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9780521859691
Content:
Considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society in the Roman Empire
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-299) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Ordering knowledge; Part II Knowledge and textual order; Chapter 2 Fragmentation and coherence in Plutarch's Sympotic Questions; Chapter 3 Galen and Athenaeus in the Hellenistic library; Chapter 4 Guides to the wor(l)d; Chapter 5 Petronius' lessons in learning - the hard way; Chapter 6 Diogenes La¨ertius, biographer of philosophy; Chapter 7 The creation of Isidore's Etymologies or Origins; Part III Knowledge and social order
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Chapter 8 Knowledge and power in Frontinus' On aqueductsChapter 9 Measures for an emperor: Volusius Maecianus' monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius; Chapter 10 Probing the entrails of the universe: astrology as bodily knowledge in Manilius' Astronomica; Chapter 11 Galen's imperial order of knowledge; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Print version Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
Language:
English
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