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Author : Bruce Gibson,Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199608409
Polybius and his World honours F. W. Walbank's achievement by bringing together a number of leading scholars in the fields of Hellenistic historiography and history.
Author : Thomas Harrison,Bruce Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Greece
ISBN : 0191745103
'Polybius and his World' honours Walbank's achievements by bringing together scholars in Hellenistic historiography and history. It re-examines a number of central Polybian themes Polybius' position between Greece and Rome, his account of the Roman constitution and the relationship of his work with Xenophon, Phylarchus and more.
Author : F. W. Walbank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520069817
As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which the Romans weathered the war with Hannibal and became masters of the Mediterranean world. F. W. Walbank describes the historical traditions within which Polybius wrote as well as his concept of history.
Author : Frank W. Walbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139436052
This volume contains nineteen of the more important of Frank Walbank's essays on Polybius and is prefaced by a critical discussion of the main aspects of work done on that author. Several of these essays deal with specific historical problems for which Polybius is a major source. Five deal with Polybius as an historian and three with his attitude towards Rome; one of these raises the question of 'treason' in relation to Polybius and Josephus. Finally, two papers discuss Polybius' later fortunes - in England up to the time of John Dryden and in twentieth-century Italy in the work of Gaetano de Sanctis. Several of these essays originally appeared in journals and collections not always easily accessible, and all students of the ancient Mediterranean world will welcome their assembly within a single volume.
Author : Nikos Miltsios,Melina Tamiolaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110584844
Although scholars continue to address old questions about Polybius, it is clear that they are also turning their attention to aspects of his history that have been inadequately dealt with in the past or have even gone largely unnoticed. Polybius' history is increasingly treated not just as a source of valuable information on the impressive expansion of Roman rule in the Mediterranean world, but also as a complex and nuanced narrative with its own interests and purposes. Moreover, since (apart from Livy's use of Polybius, which has been thoroughly discussed) most studies of Polybius' reception focus on the modern world, especially in relation to the theory of mixed constitutions, finding out more about Polybius' impact on ancient Greek and Roman authors remains a major desideratum. This volume brings together contributions which, in either posing new questions or reformulating old ones, attest both to the ardent scholarly interest currently directed toward Polybius and to the variety of hermeneutical issues raised by his work. Subjects discussed include Polybius' historical ideas, his methods of composition, his views on the role of the historian, his representation of cultural difference, his intertextual affinities, and his reception and influence. Taken together, the papers in this collection attempt to promote a deeper understanding of the qualities and peculiarities of Polybius' history, as well as to offer fresh insights into the interpretation of this important work.
Author : Polybius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1698
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:16161745
Author : Polybius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141920504
The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the final destruction of Carthage. An active participant of the politics of his time as well as a friend of many prominent Roman citizens, Polybius drew on many eyewitness accounts in writing this cornerstone work of history.
Author : Polybius
Publisher : London, Heinemann
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015005174365
Author : Polybius
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547764540
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Histories is a multi-volume work written by Polybius who was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman defeat of the Achaean League, and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a world power. Polybius' Histories begin in the year 264 BC and end in 146 BC. He is primarily concerned with the 53 years in which Ancient Rome became a dominant world power. This period, from 220–167 BC, saw Rome subjugate Carthage and gain control over Hellenistic Greece. Volume I of the Histories contains the first nine Books. Books I through V cover the affairs of important states at the time (Ptolemaic Egypt, Hellenistic Greece, Macedon) and deal extensively with the First and Second Punic Wars. In Book VI he describes the Roman Constitution and outlines the powers of the consuls, Senate and People. He concludes that the success of the Roman state was based on their mixed constitution, which combined elements of a democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy.
Author : Daniel Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004426122
The Greek historian Polybius (2nd century B.C.E.) produced an authoritative history of Rome’s rise to dominance in the Mediterranean that was explicitly designed to convey valuable lessons to future generations. But throughout this history, Polybius repeatedly emphasizes the incomparable value of first-hand, practical experience. In Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History, Daniel Walker Moore shows how Polybius integrates these two apparently competing concepts in a way that affects not just his educational philosophy but the construction of his historical narrative. The manner in which figures such as Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, or even the Romans as a whole learn and develop over the course of Polybius’ narrative becomes a critical factor in Rome’s ultimate success.
Author : Frank William Walbank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Hellenism
ISBN : 6610419604
This volume contains nineteen of the more important of Frank Walbank's recent essays on Polybius and is prefaced by a critical discussion of the main aspects of work done on that author during the last quarter of a century. Several of these essays deal with specific historical problems for which Polybius is a major source. Five deal with Polybius as an historian and three with his attitude towards Rome; one of these raises the question of 'treason' in relation to Polybius and Josephus. Finally, two papers (one now appearing for the first time in English) discuss Polybius' later fortunes - in England up to the time of John Dryden and in twentieth-century Italy in the work of Gaetano de Sanctis. Several of these essays originally appeared in journals and collections not always easily accessible, and all students of the ancient Mediterranean world will welcome their assembly within a single volume.
Author : Polybius
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547754121
The Histories is a multi-volume work written by Polybius who was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman defeat of the Achaean League, and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a world power. Polybius' Histories begin in the year 264 BC and end in 146 BC. He is primarily concerned with the 53 years in which Ancient Rome became a dominant world power. This period, from 220–167 BC, saw Rome subjugate Carthage and gain control over Hellenistic Greece. Volume I of the Histories contains the first nine Books. Books I through V cover the affairs of important states at the time (Ptolemaic Egypt, Hellenistic Greece, Macedon) and deal extensively with the First and Second Punic Wars. In Book VI he describes the Roman Constitution and outlines the powers of the consuls, Senate and People. He concludes that the success of the Roman state was based on their mixed constitution, which combined elements of a democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy.
Author : Craige Champion
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520929896
Polybius was a Greek statesman and political prisoner of Rome in the second century b.c.e. His Histories provide the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire. In this original study informed by recent work in cultural studies and on ethnicity, Craige Champion demonstrates that Polybius's work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. Champion shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Champion focuses primarily on the ideological presuppositions and predispositions of Polybius's different audiences in order to interpret the apparent contradictions and incongruities in his text. In this way he develops a "politics of cultural indeterminacy" in which Polybius's collective representations of political and ethnic groups have different meanings for different audiences in different contexts. Situating these representations in the ideological, political, and historical contexts from which they arose, his book affords new and penetrating insights into a work whose subtlety and complexity have gone largely unrecognized.
Author : Polybius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1693
Category : Greece
ISBN : PRNC:32101066875731
Author : B. C. McGing
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195310320
The Histories of the second-century B.C. author Polybius chronicles one of the most exciting, and important, developments in the ancient world-the transformation of Rome from an Italian peninsular state into the first, and only, pan-Mediterranean super-power there has ever been. This volume provides an accessible introduction to this great work, of which forty books survive (of which only the first five are preserved in full) covering the period 264-146 B.C.