Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

by Mary Jaeger (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $76.02

  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. This title provides insight into the construction of the traditional historical narrative about Roman conquest of the Greek world, and the Greek cultural invasion of Rome.