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Archimedes and the Roman Imagination Book

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... Full descriptionRead More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0472116304
  • 9780472116300
  • Mary Jaeger
  • 15 June 2008
  • The University of Michigan Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 248
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