Poetry and number in Graeco-Roman antiquity / / Max Leventhal.

• Superior document: Cambridge classical studies
• VerfasserIn: Leventhal, Max,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Open Access.; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

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...