Andrew M Riggsby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5625871 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew M Riggsby |
| NOMBRES | Andrew M |
| APELLIDO | Riggsby |
| FIRMA | RIGGSBY A M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0869-7060 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Laurence, Ray and Francisco Trifilò. 2023. Mediterranean Timescapes
This is a review of Mediterranean Timescapes: Chronological Age and Cultural Practice in the Roman Empire by Ray Laurence and Francisco Trifilò, published in 2023 by Routledge
Standardization as Economic Institution
New institutional work tends to emphasize or simply assume the need for metrological standardization in service of increasing economic efficiency. The first section of the paper quantifies standardization across a broad range of temporal, geographical, and material contexts, finding it typically weaker than is often assumed. The second section attempts to contextualize that variation by examining its consequences in various use contexts, particul…
Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire
Iudicium
A iudicium was a “trial” whether “private” (roughly civil) or “public” (roughly criminal). Over time the specific procedures in both categories evolved until both came to operate under a single form later in the imperial period.
Weights and Measures
In modern cultures, a wide variety of objects and practices are measured in a variety of dimensions (time, length, weight, etc.) with the implicit expectation that objects of equal measurements are interchangeable in use across a similarly wide variety of contexts. This was not true in the Roman world. Ambitions for standardizing weights and measures were weak at the local level (individual cities or even marketplaces) and weaker still at grander…
A Brief Orientation
This book investigates information technologies in the classical Roman world—their invention, diffusion, and use, and the interactions among those processes. The focus is on conceptual developments—e.g., “mapping,” “weighing,” “listing”—rather than material ones—e.g., “codex,” “abacus.” (Within the area covered, however, the interaction of concepts with the materiality of their actual uses will be a recurring theme.) It also focuses principally o…
Lists
This chapter starts with Jack Goody’s observations on the capacities of lists as a written technology, but focuses less on their theoretical possibilities and more on actual Roman usage. Rather than trying to encompass all possible lists (a huge category), the chapter addresses several types that each have some additional information feature: alphabetical lists, indexed lists, tables of contents, and nested lists. Tables of contents and alphabeti…
Tables and Tabular Organization
The “tables” of this chapter are matrices whose rows and columns are used systematically to arrange and locate bits of data with respect to two parameters. An extensive survey of documents that might have been expected to take tabular form (mathematical and grammatical reference tools) or even appear to be tables (calendars, accounting records) shows that most of them are in fact one-dimensional lists. Modern research has documented the value of …
Copyright Page
Representing Three Dimensions
Ancient painting made little or no use of single-point perspective. Some modern scholars, however, have inferred from this that ancient artists and audiences lacked a sense of “space.” This chapter’s three case studies (two involving fresco painting and one low-relief stucco, all in the genre generally known as sacro-idyllic landscape) argue instead for the existence a diversity of ways of encoding spatial information. The approaches are distinct…
Tables
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Conclusion
The conclusion begins with a summary of the conclusions of the preceding chapters. Most generally, uses of Roman information technologies, even ones that are broadly similar to each other, manifest enough difference in detail to discourage their extension or combination. This is both a cause and an effect of the close focus of both users and designers on extremely specific use-contexts. It then goes on to suggest several contexts for the applicat…
Representing Two Dimensions
Maps are taken here as graphic representations in which space within the image corresponds to space in the real world. More abstract data graphics in which image space corresponds to other aspects of the real world are rare, but mapping better attests along a spectrum from plans of buildings or neighborhoods (apparently common) to rarer regional and even world maps. Like other devices discussed in the book, maps in general are used in a limited n…
Dedication
Figures
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Plates
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Mosaics of Knowledge
The book examines the invention, use, and diffusion of ancient Roman information technologies. In particular, it looks at technologies defined in conceptual terms—lists, tables, weights and measures, perspective and related artistic devices, and cartography—rather than mechanical ones (e.g., “tablet” or “scroll”). Each is viewed from both social and cognitive perspectives, as well as with attention to the interaction between the conceptual and it…
Distributed Cognition and the Diffusion of Information Technologies in the Roman World
Mercury’s Wings
Reviewed by: Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World ed. by F. S. Naiden, Richard J. A. Talbert Andrew M. Riggsby F. S. Naiden and Richard J. A. Talbert (eds.). Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxxiv, 419. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538684-4. The editors propose “an initial exploration of a new field” (communications in the ancient world)…
The Politics of Geography
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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans
For Whom the Clock Drips
In a pair of letters (1.23, 6.2), Pliny offers an extended discussion of time limits on speaking in the courts. In particular, he shows a preference for earlier (notably republican) days before the coming of short, imperial time limits. Somewhat surprisingly, his nostalgia is not so much for the days when orators had freer rein, as for days when judges had more complete control of their own courtrooms. The water-clock becomes, in these letters, a…
Memoir and Autobiography in Republican Rome
Biography does not loom large in the generic classifications of Roman antiquity, autobiography even less so. For instance, it does not figure at all in Quintilian's extensive reading list for the budding orator. In fact, it is often (if controversially) claimed that autobiography was an invention of the Christian world and in particular of Perpetua and St. Augustine. If the distinctive feature of autobiography is taken to be the extended introspe…
Guides to the wor(l)d
Most of the articles in this book focus on the ideologies implicit in particular means of packaging and processing information; the present essay has a more technological focus. I do not mean to suggest that the technological and ideological approaches are, in the last instance, separable, nor even that such a separation would necessarily be desirable even to the extent that it might be possible. But, while one might be able to postulate that, sa…
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
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 a…
Pliny on Cicero and Oratory
Self and Community in the Younger Pliny
Self and Community in the Younger Pliny Andrew M. Riggsby Pliny the Younger described himself as an imitation, if a somewhat pale one, of Cicero (4.8.4–5, 9.2.2–3). 1 In a recent paper examining this connection, I argued that its value for Pliny lay in the identification of both men as orators and the further identification of the orator as an “engaged public figure.” 2 In this paper, I want to nuance that claim by giving further consideration to…
Pliny in Space (and Time)
In their original call for papers, the organizers of this volume rightly lamented the fact that work on Pliny has tended to fall into one of two traps. "We have [either] plundered him for snippets on" various aspects of Roman civilization or "confined ourselves to analysis of individual letters." In a sense, I will commit both sins in this paper, so let me offer some pre-emptive justification. My main interest in Pliny here will indeed be to expl…
Public’ and ‘private’ in Roman culture
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Mosaics of Knowledge
The book examines the invention, use, and diffusion of ancient Roman information technologies. In particular, it looks at technologies defined in conceptual terms—lists, tables, weights and measures, perspective and related artistic devices, and cartography—rather than mechanical ones (e.g., “tablet” or “scroll”). Each is viewed from both social and cognitive perspectives, as well as with attention to the interaction between the conceptual and it…
For Whom the Clock Drips
In a pair of letters (1.23, 6.2), Pliny offers an extended discussion of time limits on speaking in the courts. In particular, he shows a preference for earlier (notably republican) days before the coming of short, imperial time limits. Somewhat surprisingly, his nostalgia is not so much for the days when orators had freer rein, as for days when judges had more complete control of their own courtrooms. The water-clock becomes, in these letters, a…
Pliny on Cicero and Oratory
Public’ and ‘private’ in Roman culture
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Self and Community in the Younger Pliny
Self and Community in the Younger Pliny Andrew M. Riggsby Pliny the Younger described himself as an imitation, if a somewhat pale one, of Cicero (4.8.4–5, 9.2.2–3). 1 In a recent paper examining this connection, I argued that its value for Pliny lay in the identification of both men as orators and the further identification of the orator as an “engaged public figure.” 2 In this paper, I want to nuance that claim by giving further consideration to…
Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome
What Can We Know and How Can We Know It? Chapter 2. Ambitus and the Varieties of Economy Chapter 3. Murder (and How to Spot It) Chapter 4. Vis: A Plague on the State Chapter 5. Criminals Abroad Chapter 6. The Iudicia Publica in Roman State and Society Appendixes: A. Summary of Cicero's Criminal Cases B. Published vs. Delivered Speeches C. Some Nontrials Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum
Crime & Community in Ciceronian Rome
The Post Reditum Speeches
The phrase ' post reditum speeches' has at least two senses. In a narrower sense, it generally refers to four of Cicero's speeches from the immediate aftermath of his return from exile and dealing with matters arising from that exile and return: Post Reditum ad Senatum , Post Reditum ad Populum, De Domo Sua , and De Haruspicum Responsis . In a broader sense, the one in which it is used here, it includes all the speeches between Cicero's return an…
Pliny in Space (and Time)
In their original call for papers, the organizers of this volume rightly lamented the fact that work on Pliny has tended to fall into one of two traps. "We have [either] plundered him for snippets on" various aspects of Roman civilization or "confined ourselves to analysis of individual letters." In a sense, I will commit both sins in this paper, so let me offer some pre-emptive justification. My main interest in Pliny here will indeed be to expl…
Caesar in Gaul and Rome
Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" ("All Gaul is divided into three parts"), the opening line of De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar's famous commentary on his campaigns against the Gauls in the 50s BC. But what did Caesar intend to accomplish by writing and publishing his commentaries, how did he go about it, and what potentially unforeseen consequences did his writing have? These are…
Memoir and Autobiography in Republican Rome
Biography does not loom large in the generic classifications of Roman antiquity, autobiography even less so. For instance, it does not figure at all in Quintilian's extensive reading list for the budding orator. In fact, it is often (if controversially) claimed that autobiography was an invention of the Christian world and in particular of Perpetua and St. Augustine. If the distinctive feature of autobiography is taken to be the extended introspe…
Guides to the wor(l)d
Most of the articles in this book focus on the ideologies implicit in particular means of packaging and processing information; the present essay has a more technological focus. I do not mean to suggest that the technological and ideological approaches are, in the last instance, separable, nor even that such a separation would necessarily be desirable even to the extent that it might be possible. But, while one might be able to postulate that, sa…
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
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 a…
For Whom the Clock Drips
In a pair of letters (1.23, 6.2), Pliny offers an extended discussion of time limits on speaking in the courts. In particular, he shows a preference for earlier (notably republican) days before the coming of short, imperial time limits. Somewhat surprisingly, his nostalgia is not so much for the days when orators had freer rein, as for days when judges had more complete control of their own courtrooms. The water-clock becomes, in these letters, a…
Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans
The Politics of Geography
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Distributed Cognition and the Diffusion of Information Technologies in the Roman World
Mercury’s Wings
Reviewed by: Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World ed. by F. S. Naiden, Richard J. A. Talbert Andrew M. Riggsby F. S. Naiden and Richard J. A. Talbert (eds.). Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxxiv, 419. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538684-4. The editors propose “an initial exploration of a new field” (communications in the ancient world)…
Weights and Measures
In modern cultures, a wide variety of objects and practices are measured in a variety of dimensions (time, length, weight, etc.) with the implicit expectation that objects of equal measurements are interchangeable in use across a similarly wide variety of contexts. This was not true in the Roman world. Ambitions for standardizing weights and measures were weak at the local level (individual cities or even marketplaces) and weaker still at grander…
A Brief Orientation
This book investigates information technologies in the classical Roman world—their invention, diffusion, and use, and the interactions among those processes. The focus is on conceptual developments—e.g., “mapping,” “weighing,” “listing”—rather than material ones—e.g., “codex,” “abacus.” (Within the area covered, however, the interaction of concepts with the materiality of their actual uses will be a recurring theme.) It also focuses principally o…
Lists
This chapter starts with Jack Goody’s observations on the capacities of lists as a written technology, but focuses less on their theoretical possibilities and more on actual Roman usage. Rather than trying to encompass all possible lists (a huge category), the chapter addresses several types that each have some additional information feature: alphabetical lists, indexed lists, tables of contents, and nested lists. Tables of contents and alphabeti…
Tables and Tabular Organization
The “tables” of this chapter are matrices whose rows and columns are used systematically to arrange and locate bits of data with respect to two parameters. An extensive survey of documents that might have been expected to take tabular form (mathematical and grammatical reference tools) or even appear to be tables (calendars, accounting records) shows that most of them are in fact one-dimensional lists. Modern research has documented the value of …
Copyright Page
Representing Three Dimensions
Ancient painting made little or no use of single-point perspective. Some modern scholars, however, have inferred from this that ancient artists and audiences lacked a sense of “space.” This chapter’s three case studies (two involving fresco painting and one low-relief stucco, all in the genre generally known as sacro-idyllic landscape) argue instead for the existence a diversity of ways of encoding spatial information. The approaches are distinct…
Tables
Subject European History Greek and Roman Archaeology Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Conclusion
The conclusion begins with a summary of the conclusions of the preceding chapters. Most generally, uses of Roman information technologies, even ones that are broadly similar to each other, manifest enough difference in detail to discourage their extension or combination. This is both a cause and an effect of the close focus of both users and designers on extremely specific use-contexts. It then goes on to suggest several contexts for the applicat…
Representing Two Dimensions
Maps are taken here as graphic representations in which space within the image corresponds to space in the real world. More abstract data graphics in which image space corresponds to other aspects of the real world are rare, but mapping better attests along a spectrum from plans of buildings or neighborhoods (apparently common) to rarer regional and even world maps. Like other devices discussed in the book, maps in general are used in a limited n…
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