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Listening to the Philosophers: Notes on Notes

By Raffaella Cribiore

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
1501774751, 9781501774751
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5067441 bytes)
Pages
300\300
Time added
2025-01-19 13:22:29

Description

Listening to the Philosophers offers the first comprehensive look into how philosophy was taught in antiquity through a stimulating study of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their students. Raffaella Cribiore shows how the study of notes―whether Philodemus of Gadara's notes of Zeno's lectures in the first century BCE, or Arrian recording the Discourses of Epictetus in the second century CE, or the students of Didymus the Blind in the fourth century and Olympiodorus in the sixth century―can enable us to understand the methods and practices of what was an orally conducted education. By considering the pedagogical and mnemonic role of notetaking in ancient education, Listening to the Philosophers demonstrates how in antiquity the written and the spoken worlds were intimately intertwined.

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