Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-472-11630-0
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaeger, Mary

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Jaeger is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon and author of Livy's Written Rome.