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Both classicists and historians of science will find this book very interesting and helpful, and I am confident that the stories on Archimedes will stimulate their imagination as they did for his Roman descendants. --Statmatina Mastorakou, Aestimatio With her fine eye for structure and detail, Mary Jeager considers what the figure of Archimedes meant for a dozen different authors ranging over fifteen centuries: the genius of Hellenic learning, the Roman celebration and appropriation of that learning, the Roman and Renaissance sense of the fragmentation and loss of the past. It is a fascinating journey. --Matthew Roller, author of Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status --Matthew Roller (2/12/2008 12:00:00 AM) This elegantly written and convincingly argued project analyses Archimedes as a vehicle for reception of the Classics, as a figure for loss and recovery of cultural memory, and as a metaphorical representation of the development of Roman identity. Jaeger's fastening on the still relatively obscure figure of the greatest ancient mathematician as a way of understanding cultural liminality in the ancient world is nothing short of a stroke of genius. --Christina S. Kraus, Professor and Chair of Classics, Yale University --Christina S. Kraus (11/29/2007 12:00:00 AM) Jaeger, in her meticulous and elegant study of different ancient accounts of his life and inventions...reveal more about how the Romans thought about their conquest of the Greek world than about 'science'. --Helen King, Times Literary Supplement --Helen King Times Literary Supplement (4/3/2009 12:00:00 AM) Both classicists and historians of science will find this book very interesting and helpful, and I am confident that the stories on Archimedes will stimulate their imagination as they did for his Roman descendants. --Statmatina Mastorakou, Aestimatio --Statmatina Mastorakou Aestimatio (4/3/2009 12:00:00 AM) An absolutely wonderful book on a truly original and important topic. As Jaeger explores neglected texts that together tell an important story about the Romans' views of empire and their relationship to Greek cultural accomplishments, so she has written an important new chapter in the history of science. A genuine pleasure to read, from first page to last. --Andrew Feldherr, Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton University --Andrew Feldherr (8/16/2007 12:00:00 AM) Archimedes and the Roman Imagination forms a useful addition to our understanding of Roman culture as well as of the reception of science in antiquity. It will make a genuine contribution to the discipline, not only in terms of its original interpretative claims but also as a fascinating example of how we may follow the cultural reception of historical figures. --Reviel Netz, Professor of Classics, Stanford University, and author of The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics --Reviel Netz (8/16/2007 12:00:00 AM)

Both classicists and historians of science will find this book very interesting and helpful, and I am confident that the stories on Archimedes will stimulate their imagination as they did for his Roman descendants. --Statmatina Mastorakou, Aestimatio --Statmatina Mastorakou Aestimatio Jaeger, in her meticulous and elegant study of different ancient accounts of his life and inventions...reveal more about how the Romans thought about their conquest of the Greek world than about 'science'. --Helen King, Times Literary Supplement -- (04/03/2009) With her fine eye for structure and detail, Mary Jeager considers what the figure of Archimedes meant for a dozen different authors ranging over fifteen centuries: the genius of Hellenic learning, the Roman celebration and appropriation of that learning, the Roman and Renaissance sense of the fragmentation and loss of the past. It is a fascinating journey. --Matthew Roller, author of Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status -- (02/12/2008) This elegantly written and convincingly argued project analyses Archimedes as a vehicle for reception of the Classics, as a figure for loss and recovery of cultural memory, and as a metaphorical representation of the development of Roman identity. Jaeger's fastening on the still relatively obscure figure of the greatest ancient mathematician as a way of understanding cultural liminality in the ancient world is nothing short of a stroke of genius. --Christina S. Kraus, Professor and Chair of Classics, Yale University -- (11/29/2007) An absolutely wonderful book on a truly original and important topic. As Jaeger explores neglected texts that together tell an important story about the Romans' views of empire and their relationship to Greek cultural accomplishments, so she has written an important new chapter in the history of science. A genuine pleasure to read, from first page to last. --Andrew Feldherr, Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton University -- (08/16/2007) Archimedes and the Roman Imagination forms a useful addition to our understanding of Roman culture as well as of the reception of science in antiquity. It will make a genuine contribution to the discipline, not only in terms of its original interpretative claims but also as a fascinating example of how we may follow the cultural reception of historical figures. --Reviel Netz, Professor of Classics, Stanford University, and author of The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics -- (08/16/2007) Both classicists and historians of science will find this book very interesting and helpful, and I am confident that the stories on Archimedes will stimulate their imagination as they did for his Roman descendants. --Statmatina Mastorakou, Aestimatio

Archimedes and the Roman Imagination forms a useful addition to our understanding of Roman culture as well as of the reception of science in antiquity. It will make a genuine contribution to the discipline, not only in terms of its original interpretative claims but also as a fascinating example of how we may follow the cultural reception of historical figures. --Reviel Netz, Professor of Classics, Stanford University, and author of The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics --Reviel Netz (8/16/2007 12:00:00 AM) An absolutely wonderful book on a truly original and important topic. As Jaeger explores neglected texts that together tell an important story about the Romans' views of empire and their relationship to Greek cultural accomplishments, so she has written an important new chapter in the history of science. A genuine pleasure to read, from first page to last. --Andrew Feldherr, Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton University --Andrew Feldherr (8/16/2007 12:00:00 AM) Both classicists and historians of science will find this book very interesting and helpful, and I am confident that the stories on Archimedes will stimulate their imagination as they did for his Roman descendants. --Statmatina Mastorakou, Aestimatio --Statmatina Mastorakou Aestimatio (4/3/2009 12:00:00 AM) Jaeger, in her meticulous and elegant study of different ancient accounts of his life and inventions...reveal more about how the Romans thought about their conquest of the Greek world than about 'science'. --Helen King, Times Literary Supplement --Helen King Times Literary Supplement (4/3/2009 12:00:00 AM) This elegantly written and convincingly argued project analyses Archimedes as a vehicle for reception of the Classics, as a figure for loss and recovery of cultural memory, and as a metaphorical representation of the development of Roman identity. Jaeger's fastening on the still relatively obscure figure of the greatest ancient mathematician as a way of understanding cultural liminality in the ancient world is nothing short of a stroke of genius. --Christina S. Kraus, Professor and Chair of Classics, Yale University --Christina S. Kraus (11/29/2007 12:00:00 AM) With her fine eye for structure and detail, Mary Jeager considers what the figure of Archimedes meant for a dozen different authors ranging over fifteen centuries: the genius of Hellenic learning, the Roman celebration and appropriation of that learning, the Roman and Renaissance sense of the fragmentation and loss of the past. It is a fascinating journey. --Matthew Roller, author of Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status --Matthew Roller (2/12/2008 12:00:00 AM) Both classicists and historians of science will find this book very interesting and helpful, and I am confident that the stories on Archimedes will stimulate their imagination as they did for his Roman descendants. --Statmatina Mastorakou, Aestimatio

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Mary Jaeger is Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon and author of Livy's Written Rome (University of Michigan Press, 1998).

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