Appian, the Third Punic War and Polybius

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Key Themes and Ideas
6. Polybius and Ethnicity 13
7. Polybian Barbarology,Flute-Playing in Arcadia, and Fisticuffs at Rome 35
8. Polybius and the Tyrants of Syracuse 43
9. Past and Present as paradoxon theōrēma in Polybius 55
10. Praise in Polybius 75
11. Being, Seeming and Performing in Polybius 103
12. Part II: Narrative and Structure
13. A Survey on the Speeches in Polybius 117
14. Documents and Narrative: Reading the Roman-Carthaginian Treaties in Polybius’ Histories 131
15. Incomplete and Disconnected: Polybius, Digression, and its Historiographical Afterlife 167
16. The Historian’s Craft: Narrative Strategies and Historical Method in Polybius and Livy 203
17. Part III: Intertextual Relationships
18. Polybius and Xenophon: Hannibal and Cyrus the Great as Model Leaders 225
19. The Εncomium of Philopoemen and its Ιsocratic Βackground 241
20. Polybius and Biography 257
21. Polybius and the Legacy of Fourth-Century Historiography 277
22. Polybius and Fifth-Century Historiography: Continuity and Diversity in the Presentation of Historical Deeds 299
23. Part IV: Reception
24. Polybius and Arrian: The Cases of Philip V and Alexander the Great 325
25. Appian, the Third Punic War and Polybius 341
26. Lost in Reception? Polybius’ Paradoxical Impact on Writing History in Republican Rome 357
27. Odysseus, Rome, and the First Punic War in Polybius’ Histories 381
28. Silius Italicus and Polybius: Quellenforschung and Silian Poetics 401
29. Polybius and Oscar Wilde: Pragmatike Historia in Nineteenth Century Oxford 417
30. List of Contributors 445
31. General Index 451