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Ancient Greek and Roman Scientific, Medical and Technical Writing

  • When Mar 12, 2013 from 09:00 to 06:00
  • Where Berlin, Topoi-Building
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Versions of the Cosmic Text in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Katharina Volk – Columbia University, New York, USA

          

Reader Manipulation in Lucretius' de Rerum Natura

Silke Diederich – Universität zu Köln

               

Textual strategies in Athenian account inscriptions

Serefina Cuomo – Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom

               

The Eloquent Architect: The Rhetorical Dimension of Vitruvius' Agenda

Thorsten Fögen – Durham University, United Kingdom

               

Does the art of war belong to the genre 'technical literature'?

Marco Formisano – Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

               

Gellius, Galen and commentary: staging expert encounters with text in grammar and medicine

Joseph Howley – University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

               

'Genre' and Galen's Philosophical Discourses

Todd Curtis – The University of Texas at Austin, USA

               

And to finish on a poetic note: Galen's authorial strategies in the pharmacological books

Laurence Totelin – Cardiff University