The Histories Of Polybius

Author : Polybius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Polybius
Publisher : London, Heinemann
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015005174365

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The Histories by Polybius Pdf

Author : Polybius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1698
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:57651138

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The History of Polybius, the Megalopolitan by Polybius Pdf

Author : Daniel Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Polybius
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780674996588

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The Histories by Polybius Pdf

The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. Late in his life he became a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans; helped in the discussions that preceded the final war with Carthage; and after 146 was entrusted by the Romans with the details of administration in Greece.Polybius' overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years 264-146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a great work: accurate, thoughtful, largely impartial, based on research, and full of insight into customs, institutions, geography, the causes of events, and the character of peoples. It is a vital achievement of the first importance despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five of its original forty books have reached us.For this edition, W. R. Paton's excellent translation, first published in 1922, has been thoroughly revised, the Büttner-Wobst Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes and a new introduction added, all reflecting the latest scholarship.

Author : Titus Livius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : B. C. McGing
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195310320

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Polybius' Histories by B. C. McGing Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur M. Eckstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520914698

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Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius by Arthur M. Eckstein Pdf

Arthur Eckstein's fresh and stimulating interpretation challenges the way Polybius' Histories have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint as from a pragmatic, utilitarian, or even "Machiavellian" one. Polybius particularly asks for "improvement" in his audience, hoping that those who study his writings will emerge with a firm determination to live their lives nobly. Teaching by the use of moral exemplars, Polybius also tries to prove that success is not the sole standard by which human action should be judged.

Author : Polybius
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Polybius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020105701

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The Histories of Polybius by Polybius Pdf

Author : Bruce Gibson,Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199608409

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Polybius and His World by Bruce Gibson,Thomas Harrison Pdf

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 : Craige Champion
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520929896

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Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories by Craige Champion Pdf

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 : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191624681

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The Histories by Polybius Pdf

'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her destruction of that renowned city in 146. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the time, emphasizes the importance of practical experience for the writing of political history as well as the critical assessment of all the evidence. He attributes Rome's success to the greatness of its constitution and the character of its people, but also allows Fortune a role in designing the shape of world events. This new translation by Robin Waterfield, the first for over thirty years, includes the first five books in their entirety, and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12, containing Polybius' account of the Roman constitution and his outspoken views on how (and how not) to write history. Brian McGing's accompanying introduction and notes illuminate this remarkable political history. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Donald Walter Baronowski
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472504500

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Polybius and Roman Imperialism by Donald Walter Baronowski Pdf

Examines the complex reaction of the Greek historian Polybius to the expansion of Roman power, embracing admiration and support tempered by detachment of different kinds, personal, cultural, patriotic and intellectual.

Author : Nikos Miltsios,Melina Tamiolaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110584844

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Polybius and His Legacy by Nikos Miltsios,Melina Tamiolaki Pdf

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.