Polybius and His World : Essays in Memory of F.W. Walbank

Polybius and his World honours F. W. Walbank's achievement by bringing together a number of leading scholars in the fields of Hellenistic historiography and history. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Contents 8 Abbreviations 10 List of Illustrations 12 Notes on Contributors 13 Welcome to the Liverpool Conference 17 1. Introduction: F. W. Walbank, Polybius, and the Decline of Greece 18 2. ‘A piece of work which would occupy some years . . .’ Oxford University Press Archive Files 814152, 814173, 814011 54 3. Polybius, Phylarchus, and ‘Tragic History’: A Reconsideration 90 4. Polybius, Aratus, and the History of the 140[sup(th)] Olympiad 108 5. Some Misunderstandings of Polybius in Livy 134 6. Polybius’ Roman prokataskeue 142 7. Historiographic Patterns and Historical Obstacles in Polybius’ Histories: Marcellus, Flaminius, and the Mamertine Crisis 160 8. Polybius and Xenophon: The Mercenary War 176 9. Youthfulness in Polybius: The Case of Philip V of Macedon 198 10. Frank Walbank’s Philippos Tragoidoumenos: Polybius’ Account of Philip’s Last Years 218 11. Polybius in Context: The Political Dimension of the Histories 230 12. How to Rule the World: Polybius Book 6 Reconsidered 248 13. Polybius’ Distortions of the Roman ‘Constitution’: A Simpl(istic) Explanation 264 14. Polybius and Josephus on Rome 272 15. The Rise and Fall of the Boeotians: Polybius 20. 4–7 as a Literary Topos 284 16. Zeno of Rhodes and the Rhodian View of the Past 296 17. Scipio Aemilianus, Polybius, and the Quest for Friendship in Second-Century Rome 324 18. Mediterranean Economies through the Text of Polybius 336 19. Imagining the Imperial Mediterranean 354 20. Growing up with Polybius: A Daughter’s Memoir 370 Bibliography 376 Index Locorum 406 General Index 422 A 422 B 423 C 424 D 425 E 425 F 426 G 426 H 426 I 427 J 427 K 427 L 427 M 428 N 429 O 429 P 429 Q 431 R 431 S 431 T 432 U 432 V 432 W 432 X 433 Y 433 Z 433 From his first publication, Aratos of Sicyon (1933), to his death in 2008, F. W. Walbank established himself as one of the leading ancient historians of the last century. His many publications - not least his three-volume commentary on the Greek historian of Roman power, Polybius - transformed the study both of Polybius and of the history of the Hellenistic world. Polybius and his World honours Walbank's achievement by bringing together a number of leading scholars in the fields of Hellenistic historiography and history. The twenty chapters, including an introduction by the volume's editors, re-examine a number of central Polybian themes: Polybius' position between Greece and Rome, his account of the Roman constitution, and the relationship of his work with Xenophon, Phylarchus, Aratus of Sicyon, and Livy (amongst others). The book looks at Polybius' text in the light of narratological perspectives and for the wealth of source material it offers for the economic historian, whilst three chapters also consider aspects of Walbank's own life and work, especially the relationship between his political commitments and his academic work, the genesis of his Polybian commentary, and the personal backdrop to his career