{"id":864,"date":"2025-02-21T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/?p=864"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:42:48","slug":"assistant-professor-james-zainaldin-publishes-cambridge-monograph-on-roman-arts-and-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/2025\/02\/21\/assistant-professor-james-zainaldin-publishes-cambridge-monograph-on-roman-arts-and-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor James Zainaldin publishes Cambridge monograph on Roman \u201carts and sciences\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department congratulates James Zainaldin on the publication in the past week of his monograph\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fus%2Funiversitypress%2Fsubjects%2Fclassical-studies%2Fancient-history%2Fartes-and-emergence-scientific-culture-early-roman-empire%3Fformat%3DHB&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cian.c.seasholtz%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cff4d92c05c57416621ac08dd51232b5f%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C638755933666940976%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=0PBbJMe%2BU%2Bhb2qcvSwW9OKh1Baba%2BmzQoJ9IwOh4l%2Fo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>The <\/em>artes<em>\u00a0and the Emergence of a Scientific Culture in the Early Roman Empire<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with Cambridge University Press! Zainaldin\u2019s 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 <em>artes<\/em>\u00a0(the \u201carts and sciences\u201d) in the early Roman Empire. Zainaldin\u2019s 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\u2019s Fifteen Eighty Four blog\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcambridgeblog.org%2F2025%2F01%2Frecovering-an-ancient-scientific-culture-the-case-of-the-roman-artes%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cian.c.seasholtz%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cff4d92c05c57416621ac08dd51232b5f%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C638755933666957158%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=cHPQFn4bpP%2FuAhmY8i52B6kkywe3PV7t0Wfv1X0aSs8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Congratulations, Professor Zainaldin!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-865\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/02\/21160319\/zainaldin-book-195x300.png\" alt=\"Jame's Zainaldin's book cover with a green background and white Roman building in the foregorund\" width=\"500\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/02\/21160319\/zainaldin-book-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/02\/21160319\/zainaldin-book-665x1024.png 665w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/02\/21160319\/zainaldin-book-768x1183.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/02\/21160319\/zainaldin-book.png 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department congratulates James Zainaldin on the publication in the past week of his monograph\u00a0The artes\u00a0and the Emergence of a Scientific Culture in the Early Roman Empire\u00a0with Cambridge University Press! Zainaldin\u2019s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,11,1],"tags":[7,2],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/02\/21162434\/BookThumbnail_Zainaldin.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/classical-mediterranean-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}