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Cover 1 Half title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 List of Contributors 9 Preface 12 List of Abbreviations 13 1 Introduction: Self-Assertion and Its Alternatives in Ancient Scientific and Technical Writing 15 2 Philosophical Authority in the Imperial Period 41 3 Philosophical Authority in the Younger Seneca 72 4 Iurisperiti: ‘Men Skilled in Law’ 97 5 Making and Defending Claims to Authority in Vitruvius’ De architectura 121 6 Fragile Expertise and the Authority of the Past: The ‘Roman Art of War’ 143 7 Conflicting Models of Authority and Expertise in Frontinus’ Strategemata 167 8 The Authority of Writing in Varro’s De re rustica 196 9 The Limits of Enquiry in Imperial Greek Didactic Poetry 217 10 Expertise, ‘Character’ and the ‘Authority Effect’ in the Early Roman History of Dionysius of Halicarnassus 245 11 The Authority of Galen’s Witnesses 274 12 Anatomy and Aporia in Galen’s On the Construction of Fetuses 297 13 Varro the Roman Cynic: The Destruction of Religious Authority in the Antiquitates rerum divinarum 320 14 Signs, Seers and Senators: Divinatory Expertise in Cicero and Nigidius Figulus 343 15 The Public Face of Expertise: Utility, Zeal and Collaboration in Ptolemy’s Syn

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Jason König,Greg Woolf

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