Reviel Netz is the Patrick Suppes Professor of Greek Mathematics and Astronomy at Stanford University, California. He is a prolific author in many fields, from verse through literary theory to modern environmental history, and his core field is the history of the ancient exact sciences. He has pursued a more cultural, cognitive and literary approach to the history of science and has published a series of studies, beginning with The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics (Cambridge, 1999). He is also the translator and editor of the Cambridge editions of the works of Archimedes, two volumes of which have been published to date, and one of the main contributors to the study of the Archimedes Palimpsest, on which he co-authored (with William Noel) The Archimedes Codex (2007), which has been translated into eighteen languages.

'… this work opens a new path for future scholarship. This engaging … volume deserves a wide audience among classicists.' P. E. Ojennus, Choice

• Acknowledgments; General introduction; Part I. Canon: 1. Canon: the evidence; 2. Canon in practice: the polis of letters; Part II. Space: 3. Space, the setting: the making of an Athens-against-Alexandria Mediterranean; 4. Space in action: when worlds diverge; Part III. Scale: 5. A quantitative model of ancient literary culture; 6. Scale in action: stability and its end; Coda to the book; Bibliography; Index.

Reviel Netz is the Patrick Suppes Professor of Greek Mathematics and Astronomy at Stanford University, California. He is a prolific author in many fields, from verse through literary theory to modern environmental history, and his core field is the history of the ancient exact sciences. He has pursued a more cultural, cognitive and literary approach to the history of science and has published a series of studies, beginning with The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics (Cambridge, 1999). He is also the translator and editor of the Cambridge editions of the works of Archimedes, two volumes of which have been published to date, and one of the main contributors to the study of the Archimedes Palimpsest, on which he co-authored (with William Noel) The Archimedes Codex (2007), which has been translated into eighteen languages.

'… this work opens a new path for future scholarship. This engaging … volume deserves a wide audience among classicists.' P. E. Ojennus, Choice

• Acknowledgments; General introduction; Part I. Canon: 1. Canon: the evidence; 2. Canon in practice: the polis of letters; Part II. Space: 3. Space, the setting: the making of an Athens-against-Alexandria Mediterranean; 4. Space in action: when worlds diverge; Part III. Scale: 5. A quantitative model of ancient literary culture; 6. Scale in action: stability and its end; Coda to the book; Bibliography; Index.