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Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-16
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt623 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity
Antal sidor286
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004467217

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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.

AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionRobin Osborne, Robert Sing, Tazuko Angela van BerkelPart 1 Numbers in Society1 A Counting People: Valuing Numeracy in Democratic AthensLisa Kallet2 The Appearance of NumbersRobin Osborne3 Punishing and ValuingSteve Johnstone4 Ten Thousand: Fines, Numbers and Institutional Change in Fifth-Century AthensJosine Blok5 Numeric Communication in the Greek Historians: Quantification and QualificationCatherine RubincamPart 2 Communicating with Numbers6 Creative Accounting? Strategies of Enumeration in Epinician TextsDaniel Mahendra Jan Sicka7 Hidden Judgments and Failing Figures: Nicias’ Number RhetoricTazuko Angela van Berkel8 Performing Numbers in the Attic OratorRobert SingPart 3 Conceptualising Number9 Numbers, Ontologically Speaking: Plato on NumerosityGeorge Florin Calian10 Doing Geometry without Numbers: Re-reading Euclid’s ElementsEunsoo LeeIndex