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grbs-7521	Treadgold, Warren T.	Photius on the Transmission of Texts (Bibliotheca, Codex 187)	1978	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2016	94	70	In this book, the mathematician Nicomachus of Gerasa (ca 120-196) studiously identified the numbers from one to ten with various pagan gods and goddesses, a pursuit that Photius con­ demns as paganism and silliness.2 Photius does see some value in the book, however, because it presupposed an acquaintance with the subtleties of geometry, arithmetic and astronomy, and even with music and musical instruments.3 After summarizing and disparaging Nicomachus' work in some four pages, Photius adds a few remarks, addressed, like the whole of the Bibliotheca, to his brother Tarasius, on the rarity of the Arithmetical Theology. Photius says, evidently referring to the 'Dark Ages' of the seventh and eighth centuries, that people used to discard books very casually on the ground that they were of no use, a habit which led to the destruction of m.any useful books as well as useless ones.	cache/grbs-7521.pdf	txt/grbs-7521.txt