Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
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 Leonid...
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Table of Contents:
- 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 AP 14
- Conclusion: Summing up poetry.
