Description: How did ancient scientific writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that question for a wide range of disciplines.
Brief description: Jason König is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews. This is the third in a trilogy of volumes arising from a Leverhulme-funded research project, 'Science and Empire in the Roman World', which ran from 2007 to 2010 in St Andrews; the other two volumes, Ancient Libraries and Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance, were both published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.
Review Quotes: '... anyone interested in the study of scientific/technical literature will certainly find something useful in one or another of the seventeen individual papers. ... the copyediting is excellent and the volume is easy to use: it has copious notes and bibliography (860 titles); the original texts are often given in addition to the English translation; and there is a helpful index.' Emilie-Jade Poliquin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review