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Archimedes and the Roman Imagination
Jaeger, Mary
Descrizione Volume cartonato rigido di pagine IX-230, sovraccoperta figurata. Testo in lingua inglese, English text. Pari al nuovo (as new). Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine. 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.
Categoria: Archeologia e Storia Antica
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Edito da: Univ of Michigan Pr (Ann Arbor) anno 2008
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Dimensione: 22
ISBN: 9780472116300
Prezzo: € 40.00
