| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Polybius among the Romans : life in the cyclops' cave / Andrew Erskine -- Polybius and Herodotus / Brian McGing -- Polybius, Thucydides, and the first Punic war / Tim Rood -- Thucydides, Polybius, and human nature / Georgina Longley -- The language of Polybius since Foucault and Dubuisson / David Langslow -- Deditio in Fidem : the Ptolemaic conquest of Asia Minor / Andrew Meadows -- Old and new in Roman foreign affairs : the case of 197 / David Potter -- Aemilius Paullus sees Greece : travel, vision, and power in Polybius / Amy Russall -- Decem Legati : a flexible institution, rigidly perceived / Liv Mariah Yarrow -- Kings and regime change in the Roman republic / Olivier Hekster -- 'In part a Roman sea' : Rome and the Adriatic in the third century BC / Nikola Čašule -- Honorific statues and Hellenistic history / John Ma -- Rome, Pessinous, and battakes : religious encounters with the east / Hugh Bowden -- Festivals and games in Polybius / Bruce Gibson -- From Polybius to the Parthenon : religion, art, and plunder / Jonathan Williams |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume address central problems in the development of Roman imperialism in the third and second century BC. Published in honour of the distinguished Oxford academic Peter Derow, they follow some of his main interests: 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. Written by a distinguished group of international historians, all of whom were taughtby Derow, the volume constitutes a new and distinctive contribution to the history of this centrally important period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Polybius.
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Polybius |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Civilization -- Foreign influences
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
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Rome -- Civilization -- Foreign influences
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Derow, Peter
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Smith, Christopher John, 1965-
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Yarrow, Liv Mariah, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191612466 |
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0191612464 |
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9781280594953 |
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1280594950 |
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9780191738791 |
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0191738794 |
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