Polybius and His World: Essays in Memory of F.W. Walbank

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-960840-9
Verlag: Sydney University Press

Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

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.

Zielgruppe

The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Classical Studies, especially Hellenistic and Roman republican history and Greek historiography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Bruce

Harrison, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Müller: 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

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Gibson is Professor of Latin, Liverpool University

Thomas Harrison is Professor of of Ancient History, Liverpool University