Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire

ISBN: 9780521296939 出版年：2007 页码：320 Jason Konig Tim Whitmarsh Cambridge University Press

Part I. Introduction: 1. Ordering knowledge Jason Konig and Tim Whitmarsh Part II. Knowledge and Textual Order: 2. Fragmentation and coherence in Plutarch's Quaestiones Convivales Jason Konig 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 Laertius, 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 Konig 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.