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Título
Late Encyclopedic Approaches to Knowledge in Latin Literature
Autor(es)
Materia
Ampelius
Augustine
Boethius
Cassiodorus
Censorinus
Fecha de publicación
2018
Editor
Oxford University Press
Resumen
The chapter considers works of late Latin literature that offer an array of facts or data; works resulting from the author’s attempts to provide a coherent, comprehensive and organized exposition of human knowledge, and therefore conceived from an encyclopedic standpoint. These works display one or the other of two approaches to knowledge. One is a complete approach to the knowledge of nature, such as Lucretius’ poem On the nature of things, or Pliny’s Natural History: these works attempt to provide a description of the physical world. The other approach provides an articulated educational project by means of the exposition of the liberal arts: the triuium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic) and the quadriuium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music).
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ISBN
9780199734146
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734146.013.79
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