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"With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. The Handbook comprises five sections, each with a specific focus on ancient science and medicine. The second section covers the early Greek era, up through Plato and the mid-fourth century bce. The third section covers the long Hellenistic era, from Aristotle through the end of the Roman Republic, acknowledging that the political shift does not mark a sharp intellectual break. The fourth section covers the Roman era from the late Republic through the transition to Late Antiquity. The final section covers the era of Late Antiquity, including the early Byzantine centuries. The Handbook provides through each of its approximately four dozen essays, a synthesis and synopsis of the concepts and models of the various ancient natural sciences, covering the early Greek era through the fall of the Roman Republic, including essays that explore topics such as music theory, ancient philosophers, astrology, and alchemy. The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World guides the reader to further exploration of the concepts and models of the ancient sciences, how they evolved and changed over time, and how they relate to one another and to their antecedents. There are a total of four dozen or so topical essays in the five sections, each of which takes as its focus the primary texts, explaining what is now known as well as indicating what future generations of scholars may come to know. Contributors suggest the ranges of scholarly disagreements and have been free to advocate their own positions. Readers are led into further literature (both primary and secondary) through the comprehensive and extensive bibliographies provided with each chapter." -- Publisher's description

Science, Ancient. --- Medicine, Ancient. --- Science, Ancient --- Medicine, Ancient --- Arab World. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Civilization, Classical. --- History, Ancient. --- Medizin. --- Naturwissenschaften. --- Science --- Western World. --- History.

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Science, Ancient --- Science --- Scientists --- Sciences anciennes --- Sciences --- Scientifiques --- Encyclopedias. --- History --- Encyclopédies --- Histoire --- Jusqu'à 1500 --- 509.2 --- Professions --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Sciences History Persons --- Encyclopédies --- Jusqu'à 1500 --- Professional employees --- Natural sciences --- Science, Ancient - Encyclopedias --- Science - Greece - History - To 1500 - Encyclopedias --- Scientists - Greece - Encyclopedias

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Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This applies to Classics, too, despite the fact that a large part of the field’s extant texts deal with questions of medicine, mathematics, and natural philosophy. Focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts, this collection aims at approaching ancient Greek science and its texts from the cross-disciplinary perspective of authorship. Among the questions addressed are: What is a scientific author? In what respect does scientific writing differ from ‘literary’ writing? How does the author present himself as an authoritative figure through his text? What strategies of trust do these authors employ? These and related questions cannot be discussed within the typical boundaries of modern academic disciplines, thus most of the sixteen authors, many of them leading experts in the fields of ancient science, bring a comparative perspective to their subjects. As a result, the collection not only offers a new approach to this vast area of ancient literature, thus effectively discovering new possibilities for literary criticism, it also reflects on our current forms of scientific and scholarly written communication.

Science --- Mathematics, Greek. --- Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Sciences --- Mathématiques grecques --- Médecine grecque et romaine --- History. --- Histoire --- Science -- Greece -- History. --- Mathematics, Greek --- Medicine, Greek and Roman --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Western World --- Writing --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Language Arts --- Civilization --- Language --- Culture --- Communication --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Anthropology --- Information Science --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Mathematics --- Greek World --- Authorship --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- History --- Mathématiques grecques --- Médecine grecque et romaine --- Greek medicine --- Medicine, Roman --- Medicine, Unani --- Roman medicine --- Tibb (Medicine) --- Unani medicine --- Unani-Tibb (Medicine) --- Greek mathematics --- Medicine, Ancient --- Geometry --- Greek Literature. --- History of Science. --- Rhetoric.

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