Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
![Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World]( "Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World")
Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World101,99 €![Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature]( "Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature")
Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature195,99 €![Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Antievolutionist Points of View ... Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford]( "Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Antievolutionist Points of View ... Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford")
Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Antievolutionist Points of View ... Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford32,99 €![Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity]( "Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity")
Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity106,99 €![The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity]( "The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity")
The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity103,99 €![Greek Epitaphic Poetry]( "Greek Epitaphic Poetry")
Greek Epitaphic Poetry107,99 €![Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World]( "Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World")
Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World159,99 €
"Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems preserved in the Palatine Anthology, this book reveals the various roles that number played in ancient poetry. Focusing especially on counting and arithmetic, Max Leventhal demonstrates how the discussion, rejection or enacting of these two operations was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Practices of composing, reading, interpreting and critiquing poetry emerge in these texts as having a numerical component. The result is an illuminating new way of approaching Greek and Latin poetry - and one that reaches across modern disciplinary divisions"--
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.