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ac k now ledgements Itisaverypleasantdutytoacknowledgethosewhohavecontributed to the writing of this book. The essays presented here were given as public lectures when I had the pleasure of being a Horning Visiting Scholar at Oregon State University in April 2007. Prior to that, I benefited from testing out my ideas on participants on a number of occasions: a Pudding Seminar at Newnham College in 2002, a seminar on dialogue presented at the Karman Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Bern in 2006, and workshops on ancient scientific texts held at Newnham College in 2006 and University College Dublin in 2007. I am grateful to the Part II students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science who, during the autumn of 2007, read and discussed Plutarch’s dialogue with me. I especially thank the audiences at my lectures in Corvallis for their helpful questions and insights. I thank the following individuals for reading portions of the text, and offering useful suggestions and criticisms: Aude Doody, Ian Du Quesnay, Nick Jardine, Philip Hardie, Geoffrey Lloyd, Christine Salazar, David Sider, Laurence Totelin, Philip van der Eijk and Frances Willmoth. David Konstan not only read my text, offering helpful suggestions, but also generously shared his own work with me prior to publication, as did David Sedley. In addition to providing welcome suggestions for my text, Harry Hine very kindly shared his own translation of Aetna. Others deserve thanks for providing special help in various ways: Janet| xi Dudley, Marina Frasca-Spada, Ruth Horry, Tamara Hug, Natalie Kaoukji, Diana Lipton, Peter Lipton, Helen MacDonald, Joshua Nall, Maria Louise Nava, Margaret Olszewski, Torben Rees, and Jill Whitelock. Numerous colleagues and friends provided encouragement and enthusiasm, discussing my work with me at various points, for which I am grateful. Without naming all of them, I should particularly mention: Jochen Althoff, Sabine Föllinger, Andreas Gräser, Gerd Graßhoff, Martin Kusch, Sachiko Kusukawa, Diana Lipton, Glenn Most, Ineke Sluiter, Michael Sharp and Michael Worton. A special note of thanks is due to Paul Cartledge for reading page proofs. Niall Caldwell discussed and read this work at several stages and—yet again—contributed in ways too numerous to list here. I warmly thank Mary Elizabeth Braun and Jo Alexander at Oregon State University Press for all of their help. Finally, I thank Mary Jo Nye and Robert Nye, Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professors in the Humanities, for inviting me to give these lectures, and the series editors, Mary Jo Nye and Paul Farber, for all of their encouragement and helpful advice in producing this volume. I dedicate this work, with gratitude, to my teachers. liba taub xii | Acknowledgments ...

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