Archimedes' Cattle Problem: Greek Text Bull The Cattle Problem
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The following Greek text of Archimedes' Cattle Problem was edited by Danish scholar J. L. Heiberg (Johan Ludwig, 1854-1928) from several Greek manuscripts. You can view it in one of the following three formats:

GRAPHIC . . . A screen capture (17 kilobytes, 388 x 807 pixels) of a text version.

TEXT . . . A text version that requires an SMK Greek font such as Athenian, Attika, Kadmos, or Sparta in your system to be viewed properly. You can download the Athenian font for free for Macintosh or Windows systems from a site maintained by the Perseus Project.

GRAPHIC . . . A scanned image (82 kilobytes, 350 x 781 pixels) of Heiberg's Greek text from the following book:
GREEK MATHEMATICAL WORKS
Translated by Ivor Thomas
The Loeb Classical Library
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1941
Volume II, Pages 202 & 204