Jaeger, M: Archimedes and the Roman Imagination
- Editore:
University of Michigan Press
- EAN:
9780472035717
- ISBN:
0472035711
- Pagine:
- 248
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Jaeger, M: Archimedes and the Roman Imagination
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.
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