Poikile Physis : : Biological Literature in Greek during the Roman Empire: Genres, Scopes, and Problems / / ed. by Diego De Brasi, Francesco Fronterotta.
Biological literature of the Roman imperial period remains somehow ‘underestimated’. It is even quite difficult to speak of biological literature for this period at all: biology (apart from medicine) did not represent, indeed, a specific ‘subgenre’ of scientific literature. Nevertheless, writings as...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Poikile Physis: A Short Introduction
- A Question of Breeding? Aelian, Aristotle, And Alexander In India (NA 8.1)
- Animal Exemplarity in Imperial Greek Prose
- “A Small Mirror of Greater and Nobler Enterprises” – Ants in Greek Imperial Literature
- Biology Between Scientific Education and Ethical Paraenesis: The Physiologus
- Biology and Theology: Zoological Systematics in Basil of Caesarea’s Hexaemeron
- Aelian’s Fabulous Trees
- Galen as Phytotomist – His Study on the Fruit of Citrus Medica L.
- A Hymn to Nature: Structure, Function, Design and Beauty in Galen’s Biology
- Biological Metaphor and Cosmology The Rejection of Plato’s Artificialism by the Middle Platonists and Plotinus
- Biology and Life in Plotinus’ Philosophy
- Notes on Contributors
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
- Index codicum