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1999
Abstract Polybius’ analysis of the Roman constitution is an excursus, placed in his sixth book as an explanation of why the Romans did not collapse after their series of devastating defeats at the hands of Hannibal at the beginning of the Second Punic War.
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Abstract Polybius’ analysis of the Roman constitution is an excursus, placed in his sixth book as an explanation of why the Romans did not collapse after their series of devastating defeats at the hands of Hannibal at the beginning of the Second Punic War.
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Soviet Studies in History, 1976
Among the brilliant works of historical scholarship of classical antiquity, the work by Polybius, a historian of the second century B.C., Histories in forty books, occupies an exceptional place. Devoted to a period that marked a turning point in history, it reveals on the basis of beautifully selected factual material the process of the downfall of the
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Among the brilliant works of historical scholarship of classical antiquity, the work by Polybius, a historian of the second century B.C., Histories in forty books, occupies an exceptional place. Devoted to a period that marked a turning point in history, it reveals on the basis of beautifully selected factual material the process of the downfall of the
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Greece and Rome, 1938
Polybius was born at Megalopolis in Arcadia, which was one of the staunchest members of the Achaean League in its last desperate stand for freedom in the second century b.c. The Hellenistic civilization had been unable to achieve permanent unity in Hellas, and in the second century petty quarrels between neighbouring states seemed likely to overshadow ...
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Polybius was born at Megalopolis in Arcadia, which was one of the staunchest members of the Achaean League in its last desperate stand for freedom in the second century b.c. The Hellenistic civilization had been unable to achieve permanent unity in Hellas, and in the second century petty quarrels between neighbouring states seemed likely to overshadow ...
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2018
This story brought me back to my video-game days—the roll of the joystick in my twelve-year-old palm, the smell of adolescent sweat, and the dizzying belief the game was out to get me. Now I’m wondering if that might have been true. Branham’s story delves deep into its main character’s consciousness to extract complicated questions about competition ...
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This story brought me back to my video-game days—the roll of the joystick in my twelve-year-old palm, the smell of adolescent sweat, and the dizzying belief the game was out to get me. Now I’m wondering if that might have been true. Branham’s story delves deep into its main character’s consciousness to extract complicated questions about competition ...
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New Surveys in the Classics, 2001
From the wreckage of Hellenistic historiography only Polybius survives in large part, and even he did not get through the storm unscathed. His fragmentary text has hampered efforts to trace consistent lines of interpretation and thematic reinforcement. This is no doubt one of the reasons that the shift from historical to literary and historiographical ...
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From the wreckage of Hellenistic historiography only Polybius survives in large part, and even he did not get through the storm unscathed. His fragmentary text has hampered efforts to trace consistent lines of interpretation and thematic reinforcement. This is no doubt one of the reasons that the shift from historical to literary and historiographical ...
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Polybius was a Greek freedom fighter from Megalopolis, a town in the Achaean League, a political group of small states in the Peloponnesus. He was among a thousand Achaeans who were sent as hostages to Rome after the Roman victory at Pydna over Macedon in 168 BCE. He remained in Rome for nearly a generation.
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