1. Simmias the Elephant-Hunter and Other People at the Court of Ptolemy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Simmias the Elephant-Hunter and Other People at the Court of Ptolemy 29
6. 2. Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: Parameters of Friendship 89
7. 3. An Entertaining Genre 127
8. 4. Technology and Performance in Eratosthenes and Andreas 163
9. 5. Herophilus’ Pulse and Archimedes’ Mechanized Mathematics 191
10. Epilogue 227
11. Editions of Primary Sources 241
12. Bibliography 249
13. Index Locorum 259
14. Index Rerum 271