Overview

From his first publication, Aratos of Sicyon (1933), to his death in 2008, F. W. Walbank established himself as one of the leading ancient historians of the last century. His many publications - not least his three-volume commentary on the Greek historian of Roman power, Polybius - transformed the study both of Polybius and of the history of the Hellenistic world. Polybius and his World honours Walbank's achievement by bringing together a number of leading scholars in the fields of Hellenistic historiography and history.The twenty chapters, including an introduction by the volume's editors, re-examine a number of central Polybian themes: Polybius' position between Greece and Rome, his account of the Roman constitution, and the relationship of his work with Xenophon, Phylarchus, Aratus of Sicyon, and Livy (amongst others). The book looks at Polybius' text in the light of narratological perspectives and for the wealth of source material it offers for the economic historian, whilst three chapters also consider aspects of Walbank's own life and work, especially the relationship between his political commitments and his academic work, the genesis of his Polybian commentary, and the personal backdrop to his career.

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Author:   Bruce Gibson (Professor of Latin, University of Liverpool) ,  Thomas Harrison (Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.790kg
ISBN:  

9780199608409

ISBN 10:   0199608407
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   28 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Welcome to the Liverpool conferenceF.W. Walbank: 1: Bruce Gibson and Thomas Harrison: Introduction: F.W. Walbank, Polybius and the decline of Greece 2: John Henderson: A piece of work which would occupy some years. OUP Archive Files 814152, 814173, 814011 3: John Marincola: Polybius, Phylarchus and 'Tragic History': A Reconsideration 4: Andrew Meadows: Polybius, Aratus and the history of the 140th Olympiad 5: John Briscoe: Some misunderstandings of Polybius in Livy 6: Hans Beck: Polybius Roman prokataskeue 7: Craige Champion: Historiographic Patterns and Historical Obstacles in Polybius' Histories: Marcellus, Flaminius, and the Mamertine Crisis 8: Bruce Gibson: Polybius and Xenophon: the Mercenary War 9: B.C. McGing: Youthfulness in Polybius: the case of Philip V of Macedon 10: Boris Dreyer: Frank Walbank's Philippos Tragoidoumenos: Polybius' account of Philip's last years 11: John Thornton: Polybius in Context: the Political Dimension of the Histories 12: Andrew Erskine: How to Rule the World: Polybius book 6 reconsidered 13: Robin Seager: Polybius distortions of the Roman constitution : a simpl(istic) explanation 14: Erich S. Gruen: Polybius and Josephus on Rome 15: Christel Muller: The rise and fall of the Boeotians: Polybius 20.4-7 as a literary topos 16: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer: Zeno of Rhodes and the Rhodian view of the past 17: Michael Sommer: The mighty and the sage: Scipio Aemilianus, Polybius and the quest for friendship in second century Rome 18: J.K. Davies: Mediterranean economies through the text of Polybios 19: Josephine Crawley Quinn: Imagining the Imperial Mediterranean 20: Mitzi Walbank: Growing up with Polybius Bibliography Index of passages cited General index

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[a] high-quality collection ... offer[s] a clear snapshot of the state of Polybian studies post-Walbank. * Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement *

[a] high-quality collection ... offer[s] a clear snapshot of the state of Polybian studies post-Walbank. Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement

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Bruce Gibson is Professor of Latin, Liverpool University Thomas Harrison is Professor of of Ancient History, Liverpool University

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