Polybius /

As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which t...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Walbank, F. W. (Frank William), 1909-2008 (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press [1972]
Edição:Reprint 2019.
coleção:Sather classical lectures ; 42.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973176
Sumário:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. The Man and his Work
  • II. Historical Traditions
  • III. 'Pragmatike historia'
  • IV. Some structural problems: Time and Place
  • V. The Sixth Book
  • VI. Polybius and Rome
  • Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
  • Index