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Cesti - The Extant Fragments (Hardcover)
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Cesti - The Extant Fragments (Hardcover)
Series: Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte
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Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of
transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the intellectual elite
of the second sophistic. His two main works present a similar
encyclopedic approach, but very different contents. He can be
considered the "father of Christian chronography", since he
authored the first Christian world chronicle (Chronographiae).
However, he also wrote a comprehensive and multifaceted manual of
many fields of knowledge, where the religious character is open to
debate. The preserved fragments of the Cesti treat military,
technical, medical and many other topics. These texts are presented
in an entirely new critical edition. The transmission of the texts
as well as questions of authenticity are highly complex. Compared
to the previous edition (Vieillefond 1970), considerable progress
has been reached in terms of both, quantity and quality of the
material. Hitherto unknown texts have been included, and in the
case of dubious authorship all necessary information is provided
for a realistic picture of the transmission. In the introduction,
all relevant channels of transmission are discussed. The edition is
accompanied by notes and a new English translation.
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