Author : Donald Walter Baronowski
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 147250450X
Examines the complex reaction of the Greek historian Polybius to the expansion of Roman power, embracing admiration and support tempered by detachment of different kinds, personal, cultural, patriotic and intellectual.
Author : Polybius
Publisher : Gateway Books
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : 9780895269027
Written during his 16-year exile to Rome, Polybius' On Roman Imperialism attempts to explain why most of the inhabited world came under the domination of Rome within 53 years.
Author : Polybius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0141920505
The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the final destruction of Carthage. An active participant of the politics of his time as well as a friend of many prominent Roman citizens, Polybius drew on many eyewitness accounts in writing this cornerstone work of history.
Author : Christopher Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199600759
Addressing central problems in the development of Roman imperialism in the 3rd and 2nd century BC, topics in this volume include 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.
Author : Craige B. Champion
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520237641
"Smart and sophisticated. A work that is simultaneously a sensitive study of a major Greek historian and a probing analysis of the Greco-Roman society in which his history was produced."—John Marincola, author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
Author : Paul J. Burton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004404732
Rome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as ‘imperialism,’ since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria (and sometimes farther east) and from the North Sea to North Africa. How and why they did this is a perennial source of scholarly controversy. Earlier debates over whether Rome was an aggressive or defensive imperial state have progressed to theoretically-informed discussions of the extent to which system-level or discursive pressures shaped the Roman Empire. Roman imperialism studies now encompass such ancillary subfields as Roman frontier studies and Romanization.
Author : Polybius
Publisher : London, Heinemann
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Greece
ISBN :
Author : William Vernon Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198148661
Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for power. How did Romans respond to warfare, year after year? How important were the material gains of military success--land, slaves, and other riches--commonly supposed to have been merely an incidental result? What value is there in the claim of the contemporary historian Polybius that the Romans were driven by a greater and greater ambition to expand their empire? The author answers these questions within an analytic framework, and comes to an interpretation of Roman imperialism that differs sharply from the conventional ones.
Author : Andrew Erskine
Publisher : Debates and Documents in Ancie
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748619634
Andrew Erskine exomines the course nad nature of Roman Expansion, focusing on explanations, ancient adn modern, the impact of Roma rule on the subjed and the effect of empire on the imperial power. All these topics have crated fremedous amount of discussion among schloars, not least because the study of Roman imperialism has alwasys been informed by contemporary perceptions of international power relations. --
Author : Daniel Walker Moore
Publisher : Historiography of Rome and Its
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004426115
The Greek historian Polybius (2nd century B.C.E.) produced an authoritative history of Rome's rise to dominance in the Mediterranean that was explicitly designed to convey valuable lessons to future generations. But throughout this history, Polybius repeatedly emphasizes the incomparable value of first-hand, practical experience. In Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History, Daniel Walker Moore shows how Polybius integrates these two apparently competing concepts in a way that affects not just his educational philosophy but the construction of his historical narrative. The manner in which figures such as Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, or even the Romans as a whole learn and develop over the course of Polybius' narrative becomes a critical factor in Rome's ultimate success.
