Ordering knowledge in the Roman Empire /
The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its...
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Table of Contents:
- Ordering knowledge / Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh
- Fragmentation and coherence in Plutarch's Synoptic questions / Jason König
- Galen and Athenaeus in the Hellenistic library / John Wilkins
- Guides to the wor(l)d / Andrew M. Riggsby
- Petronius' lessons in learning, the hard way / Victoria Rimell
- Diogenes Laërtius, biographer of philosophy / James Warren
- The creation of Isidore's Etymologies or Origins / John Henderson
- Knowledge and power in Frontinus' On aqueducts / Alice König
- Measures for an emperor : Volusius Maecianus' monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius / Serafina Cuomo
- Probing the entrails of the universe : astrology as bodily knowledge in Manilius' Astronomica / Thomas Habinek
- Galen's imperial order of knowledge / Rebecca Flemming.