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050 0 0 _aPA3014.M38
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100 1 _aLeventhal, Max,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPoetry and number in Graeco-Roman antiquity /
_cMax Leventhal.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2022.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge classical studies
506 0 _aOpen Access.
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
520 _aPoetry 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.
650 0 _aGreek poetry
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLatin poetry
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aMathematics in literature.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781009123044
830 0 _aCambridge classical studies.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127295
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