Polybius Experience And The Lessons Of History

Author : Daniel Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004426122

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Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History by Daniel Moore Pdf

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 : Daniel Walker Moore
Publisher : Historiography of Rome and Its
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9004426116

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Polybius by Daniel Walker Moore Pdf

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 : Polybius
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547754121

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The Histories of Polybius by Polybius Pdf

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 : Titus Livius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600096024

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The Hannibalian war, part of the 21st and 22nd books of Livy, adapted by G.C. Macaulay by Titus Livius Pdf

Author : Nikos Miltsios
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111239927

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Leadership and Leaders in Polybius by Nikos Miltsios Pdf

The issue of leadership is crucial to Polybius’ desire to explain the rise of Rome over almost the entire known world and provide benefit and utility to readers who may have to assume positions of responsibility. This book focuses on descriptions of leadership behaviors in the Histories, aiming to identify regularly recurring patterns, motifs, and themes in the relevant passages, which could, precisely because of their persistence, heighten our sensitivity to the subtleties of Polybius’ treatment of the subject. Given that the interest in leadership permeates Polybius’ work and engages with his main thematic concerns, this study brings the reader face-to-face with questions of power and control, identity and nationality, the role of fortune, narrative strategies, thereby providing a basis for reading the Histories more generally. At the same time, a major concern throughout the book is with the ways Polybius’ representation of leadership seems to have been influenced by literary depictions of the conquests of Alexander the Great. Polybius’ interplay with his literary context and tradition deepens our understanding of what he is trying to accomplish in the narrative and how he is interacting with the expectations of his audiences.

Author : Regina M. M. Loehr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003835110

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Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories by Regina M. M. Loehr Pdf

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history. How and why did ancient historians include emotions in their texts? This book argues that in the Histories of Polybius – the Greek historian who recorded Rome’s rise to dominion in the ancient Mediterranean – emotions play an effective role in history, used by the historian to explain the causes of actions, connect events, and make sense of human behavior. Through analysis of the emotions in the narrative and theory of Polybius’ Histories using critical terminology and frameworks from modern philosophy, psychology, and political science, this work calls into question assumptions that emotions were purely irrational and detrimental in ancient history, politics, and historiography. Emotions often positively shape Polybius’ historical narrative, provide criteria for the success and morality of agents, actions, and even historians, and aid the historian in guiding readers to become intelligent leaders and citizens of a new world centered on Rome. Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories is a fascinating read for students and scholars of ancient historiography and history, as well as those working on ancient political thought, emotions in the ancient Greek world, and emotion in history and literature more broadly.

Author : Lisa Irene Hau
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1474427138

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Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus by Lisa Irene Hau Pdf

Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.

Author : Polybius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141920504

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The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004445086

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Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography by Anonim Pdf

Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. Key themes include the impact of autocracy, the nature of intertextuality, and the frontiers between history and other genres.

Author : Polybius
Publisher : London, Heinemann
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015005174365

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Ιστοριων Πρωτη by Polybius Pdf

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040281

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Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

This book explores the tension in ancient historiography between teleological design and narrating the past as it was experienced by historical characters.

Author : Kenneth Sacks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0520096339

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Polybius on the Writing of History by Kenneth Sacks Pdf

Author : Tim Cornell,N. B. Rankov,Philip A. G. Sabin
Publisher : Institute of Classical Studies
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037805457

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The Second Punic War by Tim Cornell,N. B. Rankov,Philip A. G. Sabin Pdf

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802067293

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The Rise And Fall of Athens by Plutarch Pdf

Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.

Author : Mark Wilson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132669

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Dictator by Mark Wilson Pdf

The role and development of the Roman dictatorship over three centuries