Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World
Essays and Reflections
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- Author: Frank W. Walbank, University of Liverpool
- Date Published: December 2006
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This volume contains nineteen important essays related to the Greek historian Polybius by Professor F.W. Walbank, the recognized authority on the subject. The essays deal with Polybius as a historian, with his views on Rome and with many historical topics for which he is the principal source. A substantial introduction provides a critical account of work done on Polybius during the last twenty-five years. The book will be of special importance to students of Republican Rome and the Hellenistic world and also to anyone interested in historiography.
Read more- Presents nineteen essays by the most important scholar ever to have worked on Polybius and Hellenistic history
- Assembles in one volume important essays most of which were hitherto difficult to access
- Contains a comprehensive critical account of recent work on Polybius
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"F.W. Walbank is one of the giants among British historians of ancient Greece. This volume...demonstrates how the author's personal attachments...and his invocation of supernatural forces, helped to shape the Histories. The present selection is especially valuable because a good number of the papers included were originally published in journals and collections that many scholars will not find easily accessible." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- Date Published: December 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521034944
- length: 368 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.549kg
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Polybian studies, c. 1975–2000
Part I. Historical and Geographical Papers:
2. The geography of Polybius
3. Egypt in Polybius
4. The surrender of the Egyptian rebels in the Nile delta (Polybius xxii.17.1–7)
5. Two Hellenistic processions: a matter of self-definition
6. Polybius and Macedonia
7. Sea-power and the Antigonids
8. HÊ TÔN HOLÔN ELPIS and the Antigonids
9. Hellenes and Achaeans: 'Greek nationality' revisited
10. The Achaean assemblies
Part II. Polybius as a Historian:
11. Timaeus' views on the past
12. Polybius and the past
13. The idea of decline in Polybius
14. Polybius' perception of the one and the many
15. Profit or amusement: some thoughts on the motives of Hellenistic historians
Part III. Polybius on Rome:
16. Supernatural paraphernalia in Polybius' Histories
17. 'Treason' and Roman domination: two case-studies, Polybius and Josephus
18. A Greek looks at Rome: Polybius VI revisited
Part IV. Transmission of Polybius:
19. Polybius, Mr Dryden and the Glorious Revolution
20. Polybius through the eyes of Gaetano de Sanctis
Bibliography
Indexes.
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