Word Problem of the Week(s): Classical History and Mythology

These problems come from Mathematicall Recreations, or

A Collection of many Problemes extracted out of the Ancient and Modern Philosophers, as Secrets and Experiments in Arithmatick, Geometry, Cosmographie, Horologiographie, Astronomie, Navigation, Musick, Opticks, Architecture, Staticks, Mechanicks, Chemistry, water-works, Fire-works, &c.

Basically, a seventeenth century Dangerous Book For Boys.

Several of the arithmetic questions have to do thematically with the stories of ancient Greece. These are:
Of the number of Souldiers that fought before old Troy.
Of Pythagoras his Schollers.
Of the number of Apples given amongst the Graces and the Muses.
Of the Cups of Croesus. (He gave the Temple 6 golden cups weighing a total of 600 drams, with each one a dram heavier than the next.)
Of Cupid's Apples. (The Muses steal them.)