Cultural politics in Polybius's Histories /

Polybius has provided us with the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire. Champion shows how Polybius tailored his work for a number of audiences, both his fellow Greeks & the Roman conquerors, affording new insights into a work whose subtlety & complexity have gone la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Champion, Craige Brian
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Series:Hellenistic culture and society ; 41.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnbb1
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE: Historical and Historiographical Contexts; PART TWO: Text and Narrative; PART THREE: Ideological and Political Contexts; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography; General index; Index locorum; Index of polybian terminology.