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 t

This book examines the division of power in the Ancient Greek city-states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, revealing Ancient Greek political decision-m

Introduction : discovering practical reason -- Gyges' choice : rationality and visibility -- Glaucon's dilemma : origins of social order -- Deioces' ultimatum :

Discovering the way people in ancient cultures conducted their lives is fascinating for young people, and learning how these people counted and calculated is a

Mathematicians will find accounts of every extant Greek mathematical book and many proofs translated directly from ancient texts. Students and Greek scholars wi