Assistant Professor James Zainaldin publishes Cambridge monograph on Roman “arts and sciences”
The Department congratulates James Zainaldin on the publication in the past week of his monograph The artes and the Emergence of a Scientific Culture in the Early Roman Empire with Cambridge University Press! Zainaldin’s book reconsiders ancient Latin writings on disciplines including medicine, architecture, agriculture, land-surveying, and the art of war to make a new argument for the significance of the artes (the “arts and sciences”) in the early Roman Empire. Zainaldin’s study spans philosophy, the history of science, and the study of Greek and Latin languages and literature to make an important contribution to our understanding of the ancient world. Read a post on the book published at Cambridge’s Fifteen Eighty Four blog here. Congratulations, Professor Zainaldin!
