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"Shedding new light on the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment, this book traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods, with a focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies"--

Civilisation --- Science --- Ancient history --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Encyclopedists. --- Learning and scholarship --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Renaissance. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Civilization, Ancient --- Civilization, Medieval --- Encyclopedists --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Lexicography --- Medieval civilization --- Chivalry --- Ancient civilization --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities

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The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing and critiquing a range of modern cultural theories (including those of Michel Foucault and Edward Said). How was knowledge shaped into textual forms, and how did those forms encode relationships between emperor and subjects, theory and practice, Roman and Greek, centre and periphery? Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire will be required reading for those concerned with the intellectual and cultural history of the Roman Empire, and its lasting legacy in the medieval world and beyond.

Knowledge, Theory of --- History. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- History --- Knowledge management --- Learning and scholarship --- Writing --- Rome --- Intellectual life --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Vie intellectuelle --- Information organization --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Information storage and retrieval --- Organization of information --- Information science --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Intellectual life. --- Arts and Humanities --- Knowledge management - Rome --- Learning and scholarship - Rome --- Writing - History - To 1500 --- Rome - Intellectual life

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From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting new readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds new light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some of the ways in which athletic activity was represented within different texts and contexts. Most importantly, the book shows how discussion and representation of athletics could become entangled with many other areas of cultural debate, and used as a vehicle for many different varieties of authorial self-presentation and cultural self-scrutiny. It also argues for complex connections between different areas of athletic representation, particularly between literary and epigraphical texts. It offers re-interpretations of a number of major authors, especially Lucian, Dio Chrysostom, Pausanias, Silius Italicus, Galen and Philostratus.

Athletics in literature --- Athlétisme dans la littérature --- Atletiek in de literatuur --- Track and field athletes --- Athletics in literature. --- Latin literature --- Athlètes --- Sports athlétiques dans la littérature --- Littérature latine --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Athletics --- Athlètes --- Sports athlétiques dans la littérature --- Littérature latine --- Thèmes, motifs --- Physical education and training --- Sports --- History and criticism

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Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It also deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded, eccentric types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and early Christian prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the Letters of Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially Apuleius, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early saints' lives. It argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter: these works communicated distinctive ideas about how to talk and how to think, distinctive models of the relationship between past and present, distinctive and often destabilising visions of identity and holiness.

Symposium (Classical literature) --- Food in literature. --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Christian literature, Early --- Symposion(Littérature classique) --- Aliments dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque --- Littérature latine --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Symposium (Classical literature). --- Symposion(Littérature classique) --- Aliments dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque --- Littérature latine --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Athletic training and athletic competition were key features of ancient Greek life for more than 1,000 years, from the foundation of the Olympic festival in the eighth century BC into the Roman period. Recent years have seen an enormous growth in scholarship on the subject, and in undergraduate teaching, but many seminal articles remain inaccessible, especially to English-speaking readers. This volume brings together for the first time a collection of important pieces and extracts on core themes, covering gymnasium education, festival competition and victory, the role of athletic activity in conceptions of ancient identity, and the reception of the ancient athletic heritage in the modern world. FeaturesFour of the twelve pieces are translated for the first time from French and Germancontains an extensive introduction covering key issues for study and researchbrief editorial discussions of each of the articles are included.

Sports --- History.