Poetry and number in Graeco-Roman antiquity

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Tác giả: Max Leventhal

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN: 9781009127295 (ebook)

Ký hiệu phân loại: 880.09 Literatures of Hellenic languages Classical Greek literature

Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 313226

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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