Cultural politics in Polybius's Histories / Craige B. Champion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Champion, Craige Brian.

Series:

Hellenistic culture and society ; 41.

Hellenistic culture and society ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polybius. Historiae.

Polybius.

History, Ancient--Historiography.

History, Ancient.

Civilization, Classical--Historiography.

Civilization, Classical.

Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C--Historiography.

Rome.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Polybius was a Greek statesman and political prisoner of Rome in the second century B.C.E. His Histories provide the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire. In this original study informed by recent work in cultural studies and on ethnicity, Craige Champion demonstrates that Polybius's work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-282) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92989-6

1-59734-562-8

OCLC:

475927964