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Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Leventhal, Max

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, the bo…

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9781009127295
Collation
xi, 246p, : ill
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Call Number
880.09 MAX