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Recovering a Late-Antique Edition of Pliny’s Natural History"



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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers


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Half a dozen authors quote a total of over forty extracts from Pliny’s Natural History that are absent from our manuscripts of Pliny. These extracts have been virtually ignored by scholars, and never studied systematically. This book demonstrates that the half-dozen sources, Latin writers of the fifth to thirteenth centuries CE, are reliable, and argues that their extracts should be received as good evidence of a hitherto unsuspected augmented edition of Pliny, probably produced around 300 to 350 CE. Greek writers of the same era produced augmented versions of scientific texts to update, expand, and "complete" the work of the original authors. Pliny’s own work is composed in such a way as to invite augmentation. Paul T. Keyser’s efforts to recover the augmented Natural History suggest that late-antique Latin writers were also renovators of their scientific literature. The unknown augmentor, Keyser argues, was aiming to "complete" Pliny with new data, and to organize Pliny’s sometimes scattered presentations, all with the aim of making Pliny’s work more useful. The evidence shows that even in unfavorable times, some Latin writers were able to continue practicing science.
Pages
294 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2020-09-08
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
EAN papier
9781433168260
EAN PDF
9781433168277
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58
Nombre pages imprimables
58
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27761 Ko
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83,56 €
EAN EPUB
9781433168284
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
58
Nombre pages imprimables
58
Taille du fichier
1956 Ko
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