Aude Doody
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aude Doody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aude |
| FAMILY NAME | Doody |
| SIGNATURE | DOODY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Literature of the World
Seneca and Pliny's work on nature stands as markers for a Roman sense of how the world works. Seneca's Natural Questions, Pliny's Natural History and Lucretius' On the Nature of Things represent the most important surviving texts from a Roman tradition of writing about nature. Both Seneca and Pliny situate their work on nature within a wider Roman discourse on morality and, in particular, the dangers of luxurious, extravagant living. This moral d…
Structures and strategies in ancient Greek and Roman technical writing
Chapter Seven. The Science And Aesthetics Of Names In The Natural History
The Natural History is filled with names of animals, plants, minerals, places and people, some familiar, others unknown to all but the most expert of specialist readers. A great deal of scholarship over the years has depended on the correct identification of the things named in Pliny's text, and Pliny's importance to the practice of medicine in the West made the correct interpretation of Pliny's names a pressing problem for scholars well into the…
Pliny's Encyclopedia
The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been read during the last two thousand years, especially …
Pliny's Natural History
Pliny's Natural History is often referred to as one of the first western encyclopedias and its encyclopedism is central to how it is used and understood. This article argues for a reassessment of the grounds on which we call the Natural History an encyclopedia by reexamining its relationship to the works of Cato, Varro, and Celsus and to the ancient educational concept of enkuklios paideia . If Pliny's Natural History is an encyclopedia, it is no…
Virgil the Farmer? Critiques of the Georgics in Columella and Pliny
Finding Facts in Pliny's Encyclopaedia
Pliny's encyclopaedia demands a very particular approach from its readers. The key paradox of the genre is that, having gone to the immense effort of gathering together information covering all the branches of human knowledge, it expects its readers not to read it all. The tension between the unifying discourse of complete knowledge and its practical segmentation into digestible chunks requires a certain amount of conceptual shimmying on the part…
Virgil the Farmer? Critiques of the Georgics in Columella and Pliny
Pliny's Natural History
Pliny's Natural History is often referred to as one of the first western encyclopedias and its encyclopedism is central to how it is used and understood. This article argues for a reassessment of the grounds on which we call the Natural History an encyclopedia by reexamining its relationship to the works of Cato, Varro, and Celsus and to the ancient educational concept of enkuklios paideia . If Pliny's Natural History is an encyclopedia, it is no…
Finding Facts in Pliny's Encyclopaedia
Pliny's encyclopaedia demands a very particular approach from its readers. The key paradox of the genre is that, having gone to the immense effort of gathering together information covering all the branches of human knowledge, it expects its readers not to read it all. The tension between the unifying discourse of complete knowledge and its practical segmentation into digestible chunks requires a certain amount of conceptual shimmying on the part…
Finding Facts in Pliny's Encyclopaedia
Pliny's encyclopaedia demands a very particular approach from its readers. The key paradox of the genre is that, having gone to the immense effort of gathering together information covering all the branches of human knowledge, it expects its readers not to read it all. The tension between the unifying discourse of complete knowledge and its practical segmentation into digestible chunks requires a certain amount of conceptual shimmying on the part…
Virgil the Farmer? Critiques of the Georgics in Columella and Pliny
Pliny's Natural History
Pliny's Natural History is often referred to as one of the first western encyclopedias and its encyclopedism is central to how it is used and understood. This article argues for a reassessment of the grounds on which we call the Natural History an encyclopedia by reexamining its relationship to the works of Cato, Varro, and Celsus and to the ancient educational concept of enkuklios paideia . If Pliny's Natural History is an encyclopedia, it is no…
Pliny's Encyclopedia
The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been read during the last two thousand years, especially …
Chapter Seven. The Science And Aesthetics Of Names In The Natural History
The Natural History is filled with names of animals, plants, minerals, places and people, some familiar, others unknown to all but the most expert of specialist readers. A great deal of scholarship over the years has depended on the correct identification of the things named in Pliny's text, and Pliny's importance to the practice of medicine in the West made the correct interpretation of Pliny's names a pressing problem for scholars well into the…
Structures and strategies in ancient Greek and Roman technical writing
Literature of the World
Seneca and Pliny's work on nature stands as markers for a Roman sense of how the world works. Seneca's Natural Questions, Pliny's Natural History and Lucretius' On the Nature of Things represent the most important surviving texts from a Roman tradition of writing about nature. Both Seneca and Pliny situate their work on nature within a wider Roman discourse on morality and, in particular, the dangers of luxurious, extravagant living. This moral d…
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
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