Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-960075-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

The essays in this volume address central problems in the development of Roman imperialism in the third and second century BC. Published in honour of the distinguished Oxford academic Peter Derow, they follow some of his main interests: the author Polybius, the characteristics of Roman power and imperial ambition, and the mechanisms used by Rome in creating and sustaining an empire in the east. Written by a distinguished group of international historians, all of whom were taught by Derow, the volume constitutes a new and distinctive contribution to the history of this centrally important period, as well as a major advance in the study of Polybius as a writer. In addition, the volume looks at the way Rome absorbed religions from the east, and at Hellenistic artistic culture. It also sheds new light on the important region of Illyria on the Adriatic Coast, which played a key part in Rome's rise to power. Archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence are brought together to create a sustained argument for Rome's determined and systematic pursuit of power.

Zielgruppe

For students and scholars of Ancient History, the Roman Empire, and Classical Greek literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Christopher

Yarrow, Liv Mariah

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Contributors

- List of Figures

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Part I: Author, Text, and Influence

- 1: Andrew Erskine: Polybius among the Romans: Life in the Cyclops Cave

- 2: Brian McGing: Polybius and Herodotus

- 3: Timothy Rood: Polybius, Thucydides, and the First Punic War

- 4: Georgina Longley: Thucydides, Polybius and Human Nature

- 5: David Langslow: The Language of Polybius since Foucault and Dubuisson

- Part II: Mechanisms of Imperialism

- 6: Andrew Meadows: Deditio in Fidem: The Ptolemaic Conquest of Asia Minor

- 7: David Potter: Old and New in Roman Foreign Affairs: the case of 197

- 8: Amy Russell: Aemilius Paullus sees Greece: Travel, Vision and Power in Polybius

- 9: Liv Mariah Yarrow: Decem Legati: a Flexible Institution, Rigidly Perceived

- 10: Olivier Hekster: Client Kings and Regime Change in the Roman Republic

- Part III: Cultural Forms of Political Expression

- 11: Nikola Casule: In part a Roman sea: Rome and the Adriatic in the third century BC

- 12: John Ma: Honorific Statues and Hellenistic History

- 13: Hugh Bowden: Rome, Pessinous and Battakes: Religious Encounters with the East

- 14: Bruce Gibson: Festivals and Games in Polybius

- 15: Jonathan Williams: From Polybius to the Parthenon: Religion, Art and Plunder

- Bibliography

- Index Locorum

- General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith, Christopher
Christopher Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the British School at Rome. He has written on early Roman history and archaeology, and on Roman historiography more generally.

Yarrow, Liv Mariah
Liv Mariah Yarrow is Associate Professor and Chair of the Classics Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She has published on Late Hellenistic Historiography and Roman Numismatics.