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UNINA9910455154903321 |
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Birley Anthony Richard |
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Septimius Severus : the African emperor / / Anthony R. Birley |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
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1-134-70746-0 |
1-280-33248-4 |
0-203-02859-7 |
0-203-17145-4 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Roman Imperial Biographies |
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Emperors - Rome |
Electronic books. |
Rome History Lucius Septimius Severus, 193-211 |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-274) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Note to the paperback edition; The Emporia; Lepcis Magna: From Free State to Colonia; Life in Roman Tripolitania; The Broad Stripe; Into the Emperor's Service; A Caesar Born to the Purple; The Great Marshal; Julia Domna; The Conspirators; The Year 193; The War against Niger; The War against Albinus; Parthia and Egypt; Return to Africa; The Years in Italy; Expeditio Felicissima Brittannica; Aftermath and Assessment; Abbreviations used in Appendices and Notes; Ancient Sources and Modern Scholarship |
The Septimii and Fulvii of Lepcis Magna, the Julii of Emesa, and their connectionsReferences and Notes; Bibliographies; Addenda (1999); Index |
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In this, the only biography of Septimius Severus in English, Anthony R. Birley explors how 'Roman' or otherwise this man was and examines his remarkable background and career.Severus was descended from Phoenician settlers in Tripolitania, and his reign, AD 193-211, represents a key point in Roman history. Birley explores what was African and what was Roman in Septimius' background, given that he |
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came from an African city. He asks whether Septimius was a 'typical cosmopolitan bureaucrat', a 'new Hannibal on the throne of Caesar' or 'principle author of the decline of the Roman Empire'? |
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UNISA996552350803316 |
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Autore |
Müller Martin |
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Leben Machen : Die Zoëpolitik der Synthetischen Biologie |
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Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2023 |
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©2023 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Die synthetische Biologie versucht sich gegenwärtig am Re-Design ganzer Gattungen, arbeitet an der resurrectio längst ausgestorbener Arten zur Stabilisierung kollabierender Ökosysteme und greift mittels der enomeditierungstechnologie CRISPR gezielt in die menschliche Keimbahn ein. Für eine Kritik dieser prometheischen Biologie verbindet Martin Müller Ansätze aus Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft mit Designtheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Wissensgeschichte. Seine Genealogie der Zoëpolitik ist gleichsam eine neue Macht- und Lebenstheorie. Sie beschreibt einen ,Willen zum Lebenmachen', der um 1800 entstand. Dieser intensivierte sich und eskalierte im 20. Jahrhundert in der ,molekularen Revolution' und heute im Auftauchen der synthetischen Biologie, welche die planetarische Natur und das biologische Leben in Gänze als ein Interventionsfeld ingenieurtechnischer Kalküle begreift. Erste historisch-kritische Monografie über synthetische Biologie und CRISPR Neue Macht- und Lebenstheorie |
Synthetic biology is developing new hybrid forms of life for industrial |
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applications, attempting to "resurrect" long-extinct species to preserve collapsing ecosystems, and intervening directly in the human germline with CRISPR.Martin Müller combines approaches from cultural history and theory with those from media studies and design theory as well as the history of knowledge to develop a critique of Promethean biology. In his Genealogy of Zoëpolitics, he formulates a new theory of the "vivification of power" that has occurred around 1800. He shows how the "will to make life" intensified during the molecular revolution in the 20th century and is now escalating with the emergence of synthetic biology. Nature, from atom to atmosphere, has become a field of intervention for rigorous engineering and design. First historical-critical monograph about synthetic biology and CRISPR New theory of power and life |
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