Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107169437 ISBN 13 : 9781107169432

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book explores the relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman scientific and technical texts.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Marco Formisano is Professor of Latin Literature at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient technical and scientific writing. His first monograph, Tecnica e scrittura (2001), was dedicated to late Latin scientific texts. He has studied the ancient art of war as a literary genre and its tradition (Vegezio: Arte della guerra romana, 2003 and War in Words: Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz, coedited with H. Böhme, 2012) as well as Vitruvius (Vitruvius in the Round, co-edited with S. Cuomo, special issue of Arethusa, 2016). He is the editor of The Library of the Other Antiquity, a series devoted to late antique literature.

Philip van der Eijk is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has published on ancient medicine, philosophy and science, comparative literature and patristics. He is the author of Aristoteles: De insomniis, De divinatione per somnum (1994), Diocles of Carystus (2000–1), Philoponus on Aristotle on the Soul 1 (2005–6), Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity (2005); and Nemesius: On the Nature of Man (with R. W. Sharples, 2008). He has edited Ancient Histories of Medicine (1999) and Hippocrates in Context (2005), and co-edited Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context (with H. F. J. Horstmanshoff and P. H. Schrijvers, 1995).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107169437
• ISBN 13: 9781107169432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Éditeur: Formisano Marco, Eijk Philip Van Der
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie