Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius

Herausgeber: Smith, Christopher; Yarrow, Liv Mariah

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing central problems in the development of Roman imperialism in the third and second 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199600755
• ISBN-10: 0199600759
• Artikelnr.: 35051402

Autorenporträt

Christopher Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the British School at Rome. He has written on early Roman history and archaeology, and on Roman historiography more generally. Liv Mariah Yarrow is Associate Professor and Chair of the Classics Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She has published on Late Hellenistic Historiography and Roman Numismatics.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* List of Figures
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Part I: Author, Text, and Influence
* 1: Andrew Erskine: Polybius among the Romans: Life in the Cyclops
Cave
* 2: Brian McGing: Polybius and Herodotus
* 3: Timothy Rood: Polybius, Thucydides, and the First Punic War
* 4: Georgina Longley: Thucydides, Polybius and Human Nature
* 5: David Langslow: The Language of Polybius since Foucault and
Dubuisson
* Part II: Mechanisms of Imperialism
* 6: Andrew Meadows: Deditio in Fidem: The Ptolemaic Conquest of Asia
Minor
* 7: David Potter: Old and New in Roman Foreign Affairs: the case of
197
* 8: Amy Russell: Aemilius Paullus sees Greece: Travel, Vision and
Power in Polybius
* 9: Liv Mariah Yarrow: Decem Legati: a Flexible Institution, Rigidly
Perceived
* 10: Olivier Hekster: Client Kings and Regime Change in the Roman
Republic
* Part III: Cultural Forms of Political Expression
* 11: Nikola Casule: In part a Roman sea: Rome and the Adriatic in the
third century BC
* 12: John Ma: Honorific Statues and Hellenistic History
* 13: Hugh Bowden: Rome, Pessinous and Battakes: Religious Encounters
with the East
* 14: Bruce Gibson: Festivals and Games in Polybius
* 15: Jonathan Williams: From Polybius to the Parthenon: Religion, Art
and Plunder
* Bibliography
* Index Locorum
* General Index