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

ISBN: 9780199608409 | 0199608407
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/5/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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.

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 Hellen... MORE

Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
Welcome to the Liverpool conference F.W. Walbank
1. Introduction: F.W. Walbank, Polybius and the decline of Greece, Bruce Gibson and Thomas Harrison
2. A piece of work which would occupy some years. OUP Archive Files 814152, 814173, 814011, John Henderson
3. Polybius, Phylarchus and 'Tragic History': A Reconsideration, John Marincola
4. Polybius, Aratus and t... MORE

Bruce Gibson is Professor of Latin at Liverpool University.

Thomas Harrison is Professor of of Ancient History & Classical Archaeology at Liverpool University.


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