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Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories
Craige B. Champion
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| #3773033 in Books | 2004-08-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.94 x5.98l,1.42 | File type: PDF | 343 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Truly Great Monograph|By Derek Bryan Green|Champion's work helps to explain how Polybius navigated the tricky political context in which he lived, where the Greeks of his beloved Achaean League were losing their precious political autonomy and Roman foreigners were coming to reign supreme over the Mediterranean. This interpretation of the narrative steps outside of the endle||"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 Historiogr
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.
Champion shows how Polybius contrived to t...
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