Die Kestoi des Julius Africanus und ihre Überlieferung / herausgegeben von Martin Wallraff und Laura Mecella.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, German, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur ; Bd. 165.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.Description: vi, 394 p. : 4 col. facsims. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9783110219586 (alk. paper)
  • 3110219581 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1 J945z W159k
Contents:
The Cesti and sophistic culture in the Severan Age / William Adler -- Magie, Pseudo-Technik und Paratechnik : Technik und Wissenschaft in den Kestoi des Julius Africanus / Burkhardt Meissner -- Julius Africanus und seine Tätigkeiten im 18. Kestos (P.Oxy. 412 col. II) / Jürgen Hammerstaedt -- Byzantine collections of late antique authors : some remarks on the Excerpta historica Constantiniana / Umberto Roberto -- Die Überlieferung der Kestoi des Julius Africanus in den byzantinischen Textsammlungen zur Militärtechnik / Laura Mecella -- Die griechische landwirtschaftliche Literatur in arabischer Überlieferung am Beispiel des Anatolius / Carlo Scardino -- Julius Africanus in the Constantinian Geoponica / Robert H. Rodgers -- Une source peut en cacher une autre : Africanus et les recettes des Géoponiques relatives à l'huile d'olive (IX, 21-27) / Christophe Guignard -- Sources et constitution des Géoponiques à la lumière des versions orientales d'Anatolius de Béryte et de Cassianus Bassus / Christophe Guignard -- Julius Africanus and the horse doctors / Anne McCabe. The ascription to Africanus of an encyclopaedic work entitled Kestoi (Κέστος "embroidered"), treating of agriculture, natural history, military science, etc., has been disputed on account of its secular and often credulous character. August Neander suggested that it was written by Africanus before he had devoted himself to religious subjects. A fragment of the Kestoi was found in the Oxyrhynchus papyri.[10] According to the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, the Kestoi "appears to have been intended as a sort of encyclopedia of the material sciences with the cognate mathematical and technical branches, but to have contained a large proportion of merely curious, trifling, or miraculous matters, on which account the authorship of Julius has been questioned. Among the parts published are sections on agriculture, liturgiology, tactics, and medicine (including veterinary practise)." (Wikipedia)
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Based on papers presented at an international workshop held in June, 2008, at Landgut Castelen, near Basel, Switzerland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Cesti and sophistic culture in the Severan Age / William Adler -- Magie, Pseudo-Technik und Paratechnik : Technik und Wissenschaft in den Kestoi des Julius Africanus / Burkhardt Meissner -- Julius Africanus und seine Tätigkeiten im 18. Kestos (P.Oxy. 412 col. II) / Jürgen Hammerstaedt -- Byzantine collections of late antique authors : some remarks on the Excerpta historica Constantiniana / Umberto Roberto -- Die Überlieferung der Kestoi des Julius Africanus in den byzantinischen Textsammlungen zur Militärtechnik / Laura Mecella -- Die griechische landwirtschaftliche Literatur in arabischer Überlieferung am Beispiel des Anatolius / Carlo Scardino -- Julius Africanus in the Constantinian Geoponica / Robert H. Rodgers -- Une source peut en cacher une autre : Africanus et les recettes des Géoponiques relatives à l'huile d'olive (IX, 21-27) / Christophe Guignard -- Sources et constitution des Géoponiques à la lumière des versions orientales d'Anatolius de Béryte et de Cassianus Bassus / Christophe Guignard -- Julius Africanus and the horse doctors / Anne McCabe. The ascription to Africanus of an encyclopaedic work entitled Kestoi (Κέστος "embroidered"), treating of agriculture, natural history, military science, etc., has been disputed on account of its secular and often credulous character. August Neander suggested that it was written by Africanus before he had devoted himself to religious subjects. A fragment of the Kestoi was found in the Oxyrhynchus papyri.[10] According to the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, the Kestoi "appears to have been intended as a sort of encyclopedia of the material sciences with the cognate mathematical and technical branches, but to have contained a large proportion of merely curious, trifling, or miraculous matters, on which account the authorship of Julius has been questioned. Among the parts published are sections on agriculture, liturgiology, tactics, and medicine (including veterinary practise)." (Wikipedia)

Five contributions in German, 4 in English, and 2 in French.

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