Cesti
The Extant Fragments
Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the intellectual élite of the second sophistic. His two main works present a similar encyclopedic approach, but very different contents. He can be considered the father of Christian chronography, since he authored the first Christian world chronicle (Chronographiae). However, he also wrote a comprehensive and multifaceted manual of many fields of knowledge, where the religious character is open to debate. The preserved fragments of the Cesti treat military, technical, medical and many other topics. These texts are presented in an e…
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Weitere Autoren: Wallraff, Martin (Hrsg.) / Scardino, Carlo (Hrsg.) / Guignard, Christophe Jean-Daniel (Hrsg.) / Mecella, Laura (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-028680-9
- EAN: 9783110286809
- Produktnummer: 13080054
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 356 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
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Martin Wallraff, Carlo Scardino, and Christophe Guignard, University of Basel, Switzerland; Laura Mecella, Università Europea di Roma, Italy.
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