Polybius and his legacy
Although scholars continue to address old questions about Polybius, it is clear that they are also turning their attention to aspects of his history that have been inadequately dealt with in the past or have even gone largely unnoticed. Polybius' history is increasingly treated not just as a so...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Miltsios, Nikos, 1980- editor. Tamiolaki, Mélina, 1977- editor. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | In English. |
| Imprint: | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018] |
| Series: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
v. 60. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface / Miltsios, Nikos / Tamiolaki, Melina
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Key Themes and Ideas
- Polybius and Ethnicity / Gruen, Erich S.
- Polybian Barbarology, Flute-Playing in Arcadia, and Fisticuffs at Rome / Champion, Craige
- Polybius and the Tyrants of Syracuse / Bearzot, Cinzia
- Past and Present as paradoxon theōrēma in Polybius / Maier, Felix K.
- Praise in Polybius / Gibson, Bruce
- Being, Seeming and Performing in Polybius / Hau, Lisa I.
- Part II: Narrative and Structure
- A Survey on the Speeches in Polybius / Nicolai, Roberto
- Documents and Narrative: Reading the Roman-Carthaginian Treaties in Polybius' Histories / Wiater, Nicolas
- Incomplete and Disconnected: Polybius, Digression, and its Historiographical Afterlife / Khellaf, Kyle
- The Historian's Craft: Narrative Strategies and Historical Method in Polybius and Livy / Baron, Christopher
- Part III: Intertextual Relationships
- Polybius and Xenophon: Hannibal and Cyrus the Great as Model Leaders / Seretaki, Maria / Tamiolaki, Melina
- The Encomium of Philopoemen and its Isocratic Background / Alexiou, Evangelos
- Polybius and Biography / Tsakmakis, Antonis
- Polybius and the Legacy of Fourth-Century Historiography / Parmeggiani, Giovanni
- Polybius and Fifth-Century Historiography: Continuity and Diversity in the Presentation of Historical Deeds / Scardino, Carlo
- Part IV: Reception
- Polybius and Arrian: The Cases of Philip V and Alexander the Great / Miltsios, Nikos
- Appian, the Third Punic War and Polybius
- Lost in Reception: Polybius' Paradoxical Impact on Writing History in Republican Rome / Pausch, Dennis
- Odysseus, Rome, and the First Punic War in Polybius' Histories / Biggs, Thomas
- Silius Italicus and Polybius: Quellenforschung and Silian Poetics / Karakasis, Evangelos
- Polybius and Oscar Wilde: Pragmatike Historia in Nineteenth Century Oxford / Pitcher, Luke
- List of Contributors
- General Index