Graeco-roman imperial reading communities as agents of epistemic transfer (first-second centuries CE)

• Main Author: Οικονομοπούλου, Κατερίνα
• Other Authors: Cancik-Kirschbaum, Traninger, Anita Eva
• Format: Book Chapter/Part of Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Harrassowitz Verlag (Series: Episteme) 2020
• Subjects: Second Sophistic; Reading communities; Graeco-roman imperial culture; Epistemic transfer; Iteration; Δεύτερη Σοφιστική; Αναγνωστικές κοινότητες; Ελληνορωμαϊκός αυτοκρατορικός πολιτισμός; Μεταφορά γνώσης; Επαναληπτικότητα

The chapter examines the form the practices of reading, discussing and commenting on scientific and philosophical texts take within the compilatory writings 'Table Talk' by Plutarch (1st-2nd c. CE) and 'Noctes Atticae' by Aulus Gellius (2nd c. CE) with a view to interpreting thei...