In this volume I have attempted to give especial and marked attention to the fate of Greek science in late antiquity. Elementary texts in the past have long ign

This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.

In his previous volume in this series, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle, G. E. R. Lloyd pointed out that although there is no exact equivalent to our te

Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.

Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts,