Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Max Leventhal

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Max Leventhal, Downing College, Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781009127295
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127295
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Ancient Philosophy
Series:: Cambridge Classical Studies

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Poetry 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.

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Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
pp i-i

Cambridge Classical Studies - Series page
pp ii-ii

Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-x

Abbreviations and Editions
pp xi-xii

Introduction - Numbers Up
pp 1-20

Part I - Counting and Criticism
pp 21-112

1 - Callimachus and His Legacy
pp 23-72

2 - Leonides of Alexandria’s Isopsephic Epigrams
pp 73-112

Part II - Arithmetic and Aesthetics
pp 113-208

3 - Archimedes’ Cattle Problem
pp 121-161

4 - The Arithmetical Poems in AP 14
pp 162-208

Conclusion - Summing Up Poetry
pp 209-212

Bibliography
pp 213-226

Index
pp 227-232

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