Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire

Klappentext This fascinating collection considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society in the Roman Empire. Zusammenfassung The Roman Empire depended not just upon political! military or economic control! but also upon information management. Engaging with modern cultural theorists! this volume considers how the huge body of Roman technical literature debates relationships between the emperor and his subjects! and between imperial centre and periphery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Ordering knowledge Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh; Part II. Knowledge and Textual Order: 2. Fragmentation and coherence in Plutarch's Quaestiones Convivales Jason König; 3. Galen and Athenaeus in the Hellenistic library John Wilkins; 4. Guides to the wor(l)d Andrew Riggsby; 5. Petronius' lessons in learning - the hard way Victoria Rimell; 6. Diogenes Laërtius, biographer of philosophy James Warren; 7. The creation of Isidore's Etymologies or Origins John Henderson; Part III. Knowledge and Social Order: 8. Knowledge and power in Frontinus' On Aqueducts Alice König; 9. Measures for an emperor: Volusius Maecianus' monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius Serafina Cuomo; 10. Probing the entrails of the universe: astrology as bodily knowledge in Manilius' Astronomica Thomas Habinek; 11. Galen's imperial order of knowledge Rebecca Flemming.

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• Authors: Jason K¿nig, Jason Whitmarsh Konig
• Assisted by: Jason K. Nig (Editor), Jason Nig Jason K. Nig (Editor), Jason Konig (Editor), Jason König (Editor), Tim Whitmarsh (Editor), Whitmarsh Tim (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521296939
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29693-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / General, History of Science, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, History of Western philosophy, Roman law