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Archimedes and the Roman imagination /

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0472025325

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1282593773

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6612593776

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9780472025329

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9781282593770

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9786612593772

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0472116304

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9780472116300

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b704310

Title Proper

Archimedes and the Roman imagination /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mary Jaeger.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ann Arbor :

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University of Michigan Press,

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©2008.

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1 online resource (ix, 230 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.

Text of Note

The "Eureka" story -- Cicero at Archimedes' tomb -- Why two spheres? -- The afterlife of the spheres from the De republica -- A sketch of events at Syracuse -- Who killed Archimedes? -- The defense of Syracuse -- Claudian on Archimedes -- Petrarch's Archimedes -- Conclusion -- Notes.

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"The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by a Roman after the city fell, yet it is largely Roman sources, and Greek texts aimed at Roman audiences, that preserve the stories about him. Archimedes' story, Mary Jaeger argues, thus becomes a locus where writers explore the intersection of Greek and Roman culture, and as such it plays an important role in Roman self-definition. Jaeger uses the biography of Archimedes as a hermeneutic tool, providing insight into the construction of the traditional historical narrative about the Roman conquest of the Greek world and the Greek cultural invasion of Rome." "By breaking down the narrative of Archimedes' life and examining how the various anecdotes that comprise it are embedded in their contexts, the book offers fresh readings of passages from both well-known and less-studied authors, including Polybius, Cicero, Livy, Vitruvius, Plutarch, Silius Italicus, Valerius Maximus, Johannes Tzetzes, and Petrarch."--Jacket.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt1d3kq8z

Title

Archimedes and the Roman imagination.

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9780472116300

Archimedes.

Archimedes.

Mathematicians-- Greece, Biography.

Mathematics, Ancient.

Beeldvorming.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.

HISTORY-- General.

Mathematicians.

MATHEMATICS-- History & Philosophy.

Mathematics, Ancient.

Wiskundigen.

Greece.

Sicilië.

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HIS002010

HIS002020

MAT-- 015000

SCI034000

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Jaeger, Mary,1960-

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20201207194553.0

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