Summary (From the publisher):

Original title: Smrt Archimédova
Original languages: Czech

Quotes:

Genre: Fiction→ Historical→ Ancient World (Greece, Rome, etc)

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Fantasia Mathematica (1958) [Anthology]
      Authors: Arthur C. Clarke , Lewis Carroll , Aldous Huxley , Robert A. Heinlein , H. G. Wells , Cyril M. Kornbluth , A.E. Housman , Karel Capek , Vachel Lindsay , Arthur Koestler , Richard Llewellyn , James Branch Cabell , Plato , Arthur Porges , Russell Maloney , Martin Gardner , H. Nearing, Jr. , Fredric Brown , Miles J. Breuer , William Hazlett Upson , Nigel Balchin , Edward Page Mitchell , Bruce Elliott , A.J. Deutsch , Kurd Lasswitz , Willy Ley , Harry Stephen Keeler , Arthur Quiller-Couch , Carl Sandburg , Christopher Morley , Edna St. Vincent Millay , Arthur Eddington , Ralph Barton , Thomas Dekker , John Atherton , Emma Rounds , Herbert Dingle , G.H. Hardy , C. Stanley Ogilvy , George Gamow , Andrew Marvell

Links:

• Sources on the legend :: from a very nice Archimedes website with tons of information