Graeco-roman imperial reading communities as agents of epistemic transfer (first-second centuries CE)
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...
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Harrassowitz Verlag (Series: Episteme)
2020
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Wissen_in_Bewegung._Institution_–_Iteration_–_Transfer/title_1330.ahtml http://hdl.handle.net/10889/13041 |
Περίληψη: | 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 their function as models of imparting and transmitting knowledge. |
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