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Polybius, Rome, and the Hellenistic world : essays and reflections /
This volume contains nineteen of the more important of Frank Walbank's recent essays on Polybius and is prefaced by a critical discussion of the main aspects of work done on that author during the last quarter of a century. Several of these essays deal with specific historical problems for whic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume contains nineteen of the more important of Frank Walbank's recent essays on Polybius and is prefaced by a critical discussion of the main aspects of work done on that author during the last quarter of a century. Several of these essays deal with specific historical problems for which Polybius is a major source. Five deal with Polybius as an historian and three with his attitude towards Rome; one of these raises the question of 'treason' in relation to Polybius and Josephus. Finally, two papers (one now appearing for the first time in English) discuss Polybius' later fortunes - in England up to the time of John Dryden and in twentieth-century Italy in the work of Gaetano de Sanctis. Several of these essays originally appeared in journals and collections not always easily accessible, and all students of the ancient Mediterranean world will welcome their assembly within a single volume. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 353 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-341) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 051106456X 9780511064562 9780521812085 0521812089 9780511482953 0511482957 1280419601 9781280419607 9780521034944 0521034949 9781139147941 1139147943 |