Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World

Essays and Reflections

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Hardcover | 19 December 2002

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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.

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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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Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Polybian studies, c. 1975âÇô2000
Historical and Geographical Papers
The geography of Polybius
Egypt in Polybius
The surrender of the Egyptian rebels in the Nile delta (Polybius xxii.17.1âÇô7)
Two Hellenistic processions: a matter of self-definition
Polybius and Macedonia
Sea-power and the Antigonids
H T´N HOL´N ELPIS and the Antigonids
Hellenes and Achaeans: 'Greek nationality' revisited
The Achaean assemblies
Polybius as a Historian
Timaeus' views on the past
Polybius and the past
The idea of decline in Polybius
Polybius' perception of the one and the many
Profit or amusement: some thoughts on the motives of Hellenistic historians
Polybius on Rome
Supernatural paraphernalia in Polybius' Histories
'Treason' and Roman domination: two case-studies, Polybius and Josephus
A Greek looks at Rome: Polybius VI revisited
Transmission of Polybius
Polybius, Mr Dryden and the Glorious Revolution
Polybius through the eyes of Gaetano de Sanctis
Bibliography
Indexes
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