The Anecdote as a Form of Knowledge (B07)

• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: from 2016 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397

This project investigates the epistemic potential of anecdotes in different literary genres of Latin antiquity. Its focus lies on the analysis of temporal and directional patterns and their impact on knowledge, transfer and communities of knowledge. One sub-project explores anecdotal transfer of knowledge in paradoxographical writing, mirabilia and texts dealing with natural history (Valerius, Pliny the Elder, Gellius). A second, complementary sub-project focuses on the epistemological impulses of anecdotes in various corpora of Latin epistolography (Cicero, Horace, Seneca, Pliny the Younger).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 980: Episteme in Motion - Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Melanie Möller