Publisher, Phanes Press, 1988
Hardback, with dust-jacket

Condition: The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The cover is Fine and the Dust-jacket shows some sign of wear but is in good repair.

Attributed to Iamblichus (4th cent. AD), The Theology of Arithmetic is about the mystical, mathematical and cosmological symbolism of the first ten numbers. Its is the longest work on number symbolism to survive from the ancient world, and Robin Waterfield’s careful translation contains helpful footnotes, an extensive glossary, bibliography, and foreword by Keith Critchlow. Never before translated from ancient Greek, this important sourcework is indispensable for anyone intereted in Pythagorean though, Neoplatonism, or the symbolism of Numbers.