Who is Tazuko van Berkel? 

Wannabe fiction writer. Would-be singer-songwriter. Should-not-be politician.” That’s how Tazuko van Berkel characterizes herself on her account. Tazuko has analyzed the relation between friendship and economics in the Greek world of the 5th and 4th century B.C. Her present project focuses on numbers and calculations in ancient Greek democracy. The enormous presence of numerical data in ancient and modern society raises the question whether counting is “the religion of the current generation”. Tazuko van Berkel is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Classical languages and cultures at .

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