Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture

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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Self-Assertion and Its Alternatives in Ancient Scientific and Technical Writing -- 2 Philosophical Authority in the Imperial Period -- 3 Philosophical Authority in the Younger Seneca -- 4 Iurisperiti: 'Men Skilled in Law' -- 5 Making and Defending Claims to Authority in Vitruvius' De architectura -- 6 Fragile Expertise and the Authority of the Past: The 'Roman Art of War' -- 7 Conflicting Models of Authority and Expertise in Frontinus' Strategemata -- 8 The Authority of Writing in Varro's De re rustica -- 9 The Limits of Enquiry in Imperial Greek Didactic Poetry -- 10 Expertise, 'Character' and the 'Authority Effect' in the Early Roman History of Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- 11 The Authority of Galen's Witnesses -- 12 Anatomy and Aporia in Galen's On the Construction of Fetuses -- 13 Varro the Roman Cynic: The Destruction of Religious Authority in the Antiquitates rerum divinarum -- 14 Signs, Seers and Senators: Divinatory Expertise in Cicero and Nigidius Figulus -- 15 The Public Face of Expertise: Utility, Zeal and Collaboration in Ptolemy's Syntaxis -- 16 The Authority of Mathematical Expertise and the Question of Ancient Writing More Geometrico -- 17 Authority and Expertise: Some Cross-Cultural Comparisons -- Bibliography -- Index

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