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Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis

Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004467217
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
623 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300

Bindredaktør
Sing, Robert
Berkel, Tazuko van
Osborne Robin

Biografisk notat

Robert Sing received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cambridge and is an independent researcher. He has published on the Demosthenic corpus and the Athenian system of pay for political participation.

Tazuko Angela van Berkel is a University Lecturer in Classics at Leiden University. She has published on Protagoras, Xenophon, friendship, ancient economic reflection and the rhetoric of numbers. Her 2020 monograph The Economics of Friendship was published by Brill.

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. He has published widely in Greek history, archaeology and art history.

Contributors are Tazuko Angela van Berkel, Josine Blok, Florin George Calian, Steve Johnstone, Lisa Kallet, Eunsoo Lee, Robin Osborne, Catherine Rubincam, Daniel Mahendra Jan Sicka, Robert Sing.

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We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and how, who should count, and how should the results be shared? This volume is the first to focus on the generation and use of numbers in the polis to quantify, communicate and persuade. Its papers demonstrate the rich insights that can be gained into ancient Greek societies by reappraising seemingly straightforward examples of quantification as reflections of daily life and cultural understandings.
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This is a wide-ranging study of numbers as a social and cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece, revealing both the instrumentality of numbers to polis life and the complex cultural meanings inherent in their use.
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Robin Osborne, Robert Sing, Tazuko Angela van Berkel Part 1 Numbers in Society 1 A Counting People: Valuing Numeracy in Democratic Athens  Lisa Kallet 2 The Appearance of Numbers  Robin Osborne 3 Punishing and Valuing  Steve Johnstone 4 Ten Thousand: Fines, Numbers and Institutional Change in Fifth-Century Athens  Josine Blok 5 Numeric Communication in the Greek Historians: Quantification and Qualification  Catherine Rubincam Part 2 Communicating with Numbers 6 Creative Accounting? Strategies of Enumeration in Epinician Texts  Daniel Mahendra Jan Sicka 7 Hidden Judgments and Failing Figures: Nicias’ Number Rhetoric  Tazuko Angela van Berkel 8 Performing Numbers in the Attic Orator  Robert Sing Part 3 Conceptualising Number 9 Numbers, Ontologically Speaking: Plato on Numerosity  George Florin Calian 10 Doing Geometry without Numbers: Re-reading Euclid’s Elements  Eunsoo Lee Index
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We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and how, who should count, and how should the results be shared? This volume is the first to focus on the generation and use of numbers in the polis to quantify, communicate and persuade. Its papers demonstrate the rich insights that can be gained into ancient Greek societies by reappraising seemingly straightforward examples of quantification as reflections of daily life and cultural understandings.
Les mer
This is a wide-ranging study of numbers as a social and cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece, revealing both the instrumentality of numbers to polis life and the complex cultural meanings inherent in their use.
Les mer
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Robin Osborne, Robert Sing, Tazuko Angela van Berkel Part 1 Numbers in Society 1 A Counting People: Valuing Numeracy in Democratic Athens  Lisa Kallet 2 The Appearance of Numbers  Robin Osborne 3 Punishing and Valuing  Steve Johnstone 4 Ten Thousand: Fines, Numbers and Institutional Change in Fifth-Century Athens  Josine Blok 5 Numeric Communication in the Greek Historians: Quantification and Qualification  Catherine Rubincam Part 2 Communicating with Numbers 6 Creative Accounting? Strategies of Enumeration in Epinician Texts  Daniel Mahendra Jan Sicka 7 Hidden Judgments and Failing Figures: Nicias’ Number Rhetoric  Tazuko Angela van Berkel 8 Performing Numbers in the Attic Orator  Robert Sing Part 3 Conceptualising Number 9 Numbers, Ontologically Speaking: Plato on Numerosity  George Florin Calian 10 Doing Geometry without Numbers: Re-reading Euclid’s Elements  Eunsoo Lee Index
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004467217
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
623 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300

Bindredaktør
Sing, Robert
Berkel, Tazuko van
Osborne Robin

Biografisk notat

Robert Sing received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cambridge and is an independent researcher. He has published on the Demosthenic corpus and the Athenian system of pay for political participation.

Tazuko Angela van Berkel is a University Lecturer in Classics at Leiden University. She has published on Protagoras, Xenophon, friendship, ancient economic reflection and the rhetoric of numbers. Her 2020 monograph The Economics of Friendship was published by Brill.

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. He has published widely in Greek history, archaeology and art history.

Contributors are Tazuko Angela van Berkel, Josine Blok, Florin George Calian, Steve Johnstone, Lisa Kallet, Eunsoo Lee, Robin Osborne, Catherine Rubincam, Daniel Mahendra Jan Sicka, Robert Sing.

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