Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing

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Marco Formisano is Professor of Latin Literature at Universiteit Gent Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient technical and scientific writing. His first monograph Tecnica e scrittura (2001) was dedicated to late Latin scientific texts. He has studied the ancient art of war as a literary genre and its tradition (Vegezio: Arte della guerra romana 2003 and War in Words: Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz coedited with H. Böhme 2012) as well as Vitruvius (Vitruvius in the Round co-edited with S. Cuomo special issue of Arethusa 2016). He is the editor of The Library of the Other Antiquity a series devoted to late antique literature. Philip van der Eijk is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has published on ancient medicine philosophy and science comparative literature and patristics. He is the author of Aristoteles: De insomniis De divinatione per somnum (1994) Diocles of Carystus (20001) Philoponus on Aristotle on the Soul 1 (20056) Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity (2005); and Nemesius: On the Nature of Man (with R. W. Sharples 2008). He has edited Ancient Histories of Medicine (1999) and Hippocrates in Context (2005) and co-edited Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context (with H. F. J. Horstmanshoff and P. H. Schrijvers 1995).