Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis (Mnemosyne Supplements; History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity)

Sing, Robert (EDT)/ Berkel, Tazuko (EDT)/ Osborne, Robin (EDT)

Brill（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 286 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004467217
• DDC分類 510.938

Full Description

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.

Contents

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