Polybius Rome And The Hellenistic World
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| Author | : Frank W. Walbank |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2002-09-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139436058 |
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 | : Craige B. Champion |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2004-08-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520237641 |
"Smart and sophisticated. A work that is simultaneously a sensitive study of a major Greek historian and a probing analysis of the Greco-Roman society in which his history was produced."—John Marincola, author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
| Author | : Polybius |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2003-08-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0141920505 |
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 | : F. W. Walbank |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1990-02-07 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Erich S. Gruen |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 882 |
| Release | : 1986-09-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520057371 |
In this revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place. The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the part of Roman policymakers to adjust to Hellenistic practices rather than to impose a system of their own.
| Author | : Donald Walter Baronowski |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2013-05-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147250450X |
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 | : Bruce Gibson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2013-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199608407 |
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 | : Harriet I. Flower |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2014-06-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107032245 |
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
| Author | : Bernard Mineo |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 517 |
| Release | : 2014-11-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1118301285 |
A Companion to Livy features a collection of essays representing the most up-to-date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy. Features contributions from top Livian scholars from around the world Presents for the first time a new interpretation of Livy's historical philosophy, which represents a key to an overall interpretation of Livy's body of work Includes studies of Livy's work from an Indo-European comparative aspect Provides the most modern studies on literary archetypes for Livy's narrative of the history of early Rome
| Author | : Frank William Walbank |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674387263 |
The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. F. W. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.
