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Polybius, Rome, and the Hellenistic world : essays and reflections /

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 whic...

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Основен автор: Walbank, F. W. 1909-2008.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Polybius, Rome, and the Hellenistic world.
Съдържание:
  • Polybian studies, c. 1975-2000
  • Historical and geographical papers
  • Geography of Polybius
  • Egypt in Polybius
  • Surrender of the Egyptian rebels in the Nile delta (Polybius xxii,17.1-7)
  • 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
  • Achaean assemblies
  • Polybius as a historian
  • Timaeus' views on the past
  • Polybius and the past
  • 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
  • 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.