Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician was killed by a Roman in the Second Punic War, and the roman audiences preserve a lot of stories about him. Archimedes´ history, Mary Jaeger argues, becomes a locus where writers explore the intersection of Greek and Roman culture, and as such it plays an important role in Roman self-definition. The biography of the mathematician as a historical narrative about the Roman conquest of the Greek world.