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Author Jaeger, Mary, 1960-

Title Archimedes and the Roman imagination / Mary Jaeger
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages)
Contents The "Eureka" story -- Cicero at Archimedes' tomb -- Why two spheres? -- The afterlife of the spheres from the De republica -- A sketch of events at Syracuse -- Who killed Archimedes? -- The defense of Syracuse -- Claudian on Archimedes -- Petrarch's Archimedes -- Conclusion -- Notes
Summary "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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index
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Subject Archimedes
SUBJECT Archimedes fast
Subject Mathematicians -- Greece -- Biography
Mathematics, Ancient.
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
HISTORY -- General.
Mathematicians
Mathematics, Ancient
Wiskundigen.
Beeldvorming.
Greece
Sicilië.
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007037351
ISBN 9780472025329
0472025325
1282593773
9781282593770
9786612593772
6612593776