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Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Hardcover, New edition)
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Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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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 book reveals the various roles that number played in ancient
poetry. Focussing 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.
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