Structures and Strategies in Ancient Greek and Roman Technical Writing: An Introduction (2012)
Doody, Aude (Author)
Föllinger, Sabine (Author)
Taub, Liba Chaia (Author)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume: 43
Pages: 233--236
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue, “Structures and Strategies in Ancient Greek and Roman Technical Writing”
Language: English
Most of our knowledge of Greek and Roman scientific practice and its place in ancient culture is derived from our study of ancient texts. In the last few decades, this written evidence---ancient technical or specialist literature---has begun to be studied using tools of literary analysis to help answer questions about, for instance, how these works were composed, their authors' intentions and the expectations of their readers. This introduction to Structures and strategies in ancient Greek and Roman technical writing provides an overview of recent scholarship in the area, and the difficulty in pinning down what `technical/specialist literature' might mean in an ancient context, since Greek and Roman authors communicated scientific knowledge using a wide variety of styles and forms of text (e.g. poetry, dialogues, letters). An outline of the three sections is provided: Form as a mirror of method, in which Sabine Föllinger and Alexander Mueller explore ways in which the structures of texts by Aristotle and Plutarch may reflect methodological concerns; Authors and their implied readers, with contributions by Oliver Stoll, David Creese, Boris Dunsch and Paula Olmos, which examines what ancient texts can tell us about the place of technical knowledge in antiquity; Science and the uses of poetry, with articles by Jochen Althoff, Michael Coxhead and Laurence Totelin, and a new English translation of the Aetna poem by Harry Hine, which explores the (to us) unexpected roles of poetry in ancient scientific culture.
...MoreDescription Partial contents:
Article Föllinger, Sabine (2012) Aristotle's Biological Works as Scientific Literature. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 237).
Article Creese, David (2012) Rhetorical Uses of Mathematical Harmonics in Philo and Plutarch. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 258).
Article Dunsch, Boris (2012) Arte rates reguntur: Nautical Handbooks in Antiquity?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 270).
Article Olmos, Paula (2012) Two Literary Encyclopaedias from Late Antiquity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 284).
Article Althoff, Jochen (2012) Presocratic Discourse in Poetry and Prose: The Case of Empedocles and Anaxagoras. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 293).
Article Coxhead, Michael A. (2012) A Close Examination of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanical Problems: The Homology between Mechanics and Poetry as techne. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 300).
Article Totelin, Laurence M. V. (2012) And to End on a Poetic Note: Galen's Authorial Strategies in the Pharmacological Books. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 307).
Article Hine, Harry (2012) Aetna: A New Translation Based on the Text of F. R. D. Goodyear. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 316).
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