Book ID: CBB000831114

Archimedes and the Roman Imagination (2008)

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Jaeger, Mary (Author)


University of Michigan Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: ix + 230 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Uses the biography of Archimedes “to explore the traditional historical narrative about the Roman conquest of the Greek world and the Greek cultural invasion of Rome.” (from the publisher)


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Review Geymonat, Mario (2010) Review of "Archimedes and the Roman Imagination". Classical World (p. 111). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Geymonat, Mario
Zhmud, Leonid Ja.
Zhao, Jiwei
Young, C. K.
Totelin, Laurence M. V.
Taub, Liba Chaia
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