Browsing Department of Classics Faculty Publications by Type "journal article"
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Let Us Make the Effort: Science into Latin in Antiquity
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-05-29)Scientific writing initially came to ancient Latin speakers as a foreign discipline. Greek-language sources, in the form both of written texts and of living speakers, brought a wide range of philosophical, technical, and ... -
Observation Claims and Epistemic Confidence in Aristotle’s Biology
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-05-26)This essay looks at the ways in which Aristotle signals his confidence in observation claims in his biological works. Widely seen as an astute observer of the natural world, Aristotle in fact makes surprisingly few explicit ... -
Saved by the phenomena: Law and nature in Cicero and the (pseudo?) Platonic Epinomis
(2019-03-12)No abstract available -
Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-04-30)Concluding his discussion of bee reproduction in Book 3 of Generation of Animals, Aristotle makes a famous methodological pronouncement about the relationship between sense perception and theory in natural history. In the ...