Ordering knowledge in the Roman Empire
By: edited by Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh.
Contributors: Konig, Jason.; Whitmarsh, Tim.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521859691
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of -- Rome -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-299) and index.
Table of contents: value: Ordering knowledge / Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh; value: Fragmentation and coherence in Plutarch's Synoptic questions / Jason König; value: Galen and Athenaeus in the Hellenistic library / John Wilkins; value: Guides to the wor(l)d / Andrew M. Riggsby; value: Petronius' lessons in learning, the hard way / Victoria Rimell; value: Diogenes Laërtius, biographer of philosophy / James Warren; value: The creation of Isidore's Etymologies or Origins / John Henderson; value: Knowledge and power in Frontinus' On aqueducts / Alice König; value: Measures for an emperor : Volusius Maecianus' monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius / Serafina Cuomo; value: Probing the entrails of the universe : astrology as bodily knowledge in Manilius' Astronomica / Thomas Habinek; value: Galen's imperial order of knowledge / Rebecca Flemming.