1: Katharina Volk: Introduction: A century of Manilian
scholarship
I. Intellectual and scientific backdrop
2: Elaine Fantham: More sentiment than science: Roman stargazing
before and after Manilius
3: Thomas Habinek: Manilius' conflicted Stoicism
4: Daryn Lehoux: Myth and explanation in Manilius
II. Integrity and consistency
5: John Henderson: Watch this space (getting round book 1:
215-46)
6: Wolfgang-Rainer Mann: On two Stoic 'paradoxes' in Manilius
7: Katharina Volk: Manilian self-contradiction
8: Steven J. Green: Arduum ad astra: The poetics and politics of
horoscopic failure in Manilius' Astronomica
III. Metaphors
9: Wolfgang Hübner: Tropes and figures: Manilian style as a
reflection of astrological tradition
10: Duncan F. Kennedy: Sums in verse or a mathematical
aesthetic?
11: Patrick Glauthier: Census and commercium: Two economic
metaphors in Manilius
IV. Didactic digressions
12: Monica R. Gale: Digressions, intertextuality, and ideology in
didactic poetry: The case of Manilius
13: Josèphe-Henriette Abry: Cosmos and imperium: Politicized
digressions in Manilius' Astronomica
14: James Uden: A song from the universal chorus: The Perseus and
Andromeda epyllion
V. Reception
15: Enrico Flores: Augustus, Manilius, and Claudian
16: Caroline Stark: Renaissance reception of Manilius'
anthropology
17: Stephan Heilen: Lorenzo Bonincontri's reception of Manilius'
chapter on comets (Astr. 1.809-926)
Steven J. Green is Senior Lecturer in Classis,
University of Leeds
Katharina Volk is Associate Professor of
Classics, Columbia University
This volume can certainly be used to show (to students, for
example) how knowledge should not stay fixed and dogmatic and how
the different disciplines in classics, such as philosophy,
epistemology, and literature, should always have dialogues with one
another. I must stress the open-mindedness not only of the editors,
but also of the seventeen contributors who are often openly
criticized by their fellow contributors to the same volume. This
volume is well constructed and easy to use.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
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