Emma Nicholson

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories

Politics, History, and Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V, aiming to advance our knowledge of both the historian and his subject. It takes a chronological and thematic approach, exploring how Polybius' political, historiographical, and didactic aims impact the king's depiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 168mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780192866769
• ISBN-10: 0192866761
• Artikelnr.: 67735386

Autorenporträt

Dr Emma Nicholson is a lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, specializing in Polybius, the Antigonid dynasty, and Rome's entrance into the Greek East. Awarded an AHRC Doctoral Fellowship in 2012, she completed her PhD on Polybius and Philip V at Newcastle University in 2015. After several months as a visiting researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Freiburg University, and the University of Bologna in 2015, she taught at Newcastle (2015-2016) and Edinburgh (2016-2017), before taking up her post at Exeter in 2017. She is the director of Exeter's Centre for Hellenistic Culture and Society, and a director of the Antigonid Network.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Constructing Macedon and the World through an Achaean Perspective
2: The Darling of the Greeks Turns into a Tyrant
3: Philip V and his Greek Allies
4: Philip and the Romans
5: A Tragic King
6: Woven History, Woven Lives
Conclusion
Bibliography