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Writing Science - Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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Writing Science - Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
Series: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
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Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant
role in modern literary criticism. This applies to Classics, too,
despite the fact that a large part of the field's extant texts deal
with questions of medicine, mathematics, and natural philosophy.
Focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts, this collection
aims at approaching ancient Greek science and its texts from the
cross-disciplinary perspective of authorship. Among the questions
addressed are: What is a scientific author? In what respect does
scientific writing differ from 'literary' writing? How does the
author present himself as an authoritative figure through his text?
What strategies of trust do these authors employ? These and related
questions cannot be discussed within the typical boundaries of
modern academic disciplines, thus most of the sixteen authors, many
of them leading experts in the fields of ancient science, bring a
comparative perspective to their subjects. As a result, the
collection not only offers a new approach to this vast area of
ancient literature, thus effectively discovering new possibilities
for literary criticism, it also reflects on our current forms of
scientific and scholarly written communication.
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