Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity Leventhal Max
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity Leventhal Max Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue…
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Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity Leventhal Max
Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. 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. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses.
Practices of composing, reading, interpreting and critiquing poetry emerge in these texts as having a numerical component. 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. The result is an illuminating new way of approaching Greek and Latin poetry - and one that reaches across
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