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In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at the relationship between empirical knowledge and textual transmission in early scientific thinking. The eleven contributions to the volume derive from a panel held at the American Oriental Society in 2013 and cover more than three millennia of historical development, ranging from Babylonian medicine and astronomy to the persistence of Mesopotamian lore in Syriac and Arabic meditations on the properties of animals. The volume also includes major contributions on the history of Mesopotamian “rationality,” epistemic labels for tested and tried remedies, and the development of depersonalized case histories in Babylonian therapeutic compendia. Together, these studies offer an overview of several important moments in the development of non-Western scientific thinking and a significant contribution to our understanding of how traditions of technical knowledge were produced and transmitted in the ancient world.

Science --- Technology --- Scientific literature --- Technical literature --- Reference books --- Empiricism in literature. --- Semitic literature --- Multilingualism and literature --- Learning and scholarship --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Literature and multilingualism --- Literature --- Middle Eastern literature --- Reference books, English --- Books --- Reference sources --- Engineering literature --- Technology literature --- Science literature --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- History --- History and criticism. --- Iraq --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Intellectual life. --- Natural sciences --- compilation and redaction in the ancient world. --- early scientific thought. --- empiricism. --- infrastructural compendia.

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Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient's external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological 'types' that had emerged in the Hellenistic period.This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval --- History of science --- Physiognomy Description Ekphrasis --- 750-1258 --- Griechenland --- Indien --- Mesopotamien --- Römisches Reich --- Imperium Romanum --- Reich Rom --- Italien --- Antike --- Römerzeit --- Römer --- v753-500 --- Zweistromland --- Zwischenstromland --- Bharat --- Indische Union --- Altindien --- Hindustan --- Hindostan --- Indie --- Indian Union --- Bhārata Gaṇarājya --- Bhārata --- Republik Indien --- Dominion of India --- India --- Republic of India --- Inde --- Indië --- Bharata --- Indiia --- Indland --- Hindiston Respublikasi --- Satharanarat 'India --- Yin-tu --- Inder --- Britisch-Indien --- Südasien --- 15.08.1947 --- -Griechenland --- Griechen --- Altertum --- Geschichte 753 v. Chr.-500

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