Ranges widely across Greek and Latin poetry to demonstrate the various roles played by number and how the treatment of counting and arithmetic was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Aimed at both classicists and those interested in the cultural history of mathematics.
Ranges widely across Greek and Latin poetry to demonstrate the various roles played by number and how the treatment of counting and arithmetic was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Aimed at both classicists and those interested in the cultural history of mathematics.
Max Leventhal is Bye Fellow and College Lecturer in Classics at Downing College, Cambridge. He was previously the Thole Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Classics.
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Introduction: Numbers Up Part I. Counting and Criticism: 1. Callimachus and his Legacy 2. Leonides of Alexandria's Isopsephic Epigrams Part II. Arithmetic and Aesthetics: 3. Archimedes' Cattle Problem 4. The Arithmetical Poems in A.P. 14 Conclusion: Summing Up Poetry.
Introduction: Numbers Up Part I. Counting and Criticism: 1. Callimachus and his Legacy 2. Leonides of Alexandria's Isopsephic Epigrams Part II. Arithmetic and Aesthetics: 3. Archimedes' Cattle Problem 4. The Arithmetical Poems in A.P. 14 Conclusion: Summing Up Poetry.
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