Polybius

by Walbank, F. W.

• ISBN13: 9780520069817
• ISBN10: 0520069811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr on Demand

Summary

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. HisHistoryis 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 Biography

F. W. Walbank is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The Man and His Work	p. 1
Historical Traditions	p. 32
Pragmatike historia	p. 66
Some Structural Problems: Time and Place	p. 97
The Sixth Book	p. 130
Polybius and Rome	p. 157
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography	p. 184
Index
General	p. 189
Authors and Passages	p. 197
Inscriptions	p. 200
Greek	p. 200
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