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Donald Walter Baronowski
ISBN: 9780715639429
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the complex reaction of the Greek historian Polybius to the expansion of Roman power, embracing admiration and support tempered by detachment of different kinds, personal, cultural, patriotic and intellectual.
This study explores in depth the complex reaction of the Greek historian Polybius to the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and both admired and supported Roman domination, Polybius also demonstrated a certain intellectual distance from Rome, evident in his application of abstract principles to the evaluation of Rome and other imperial powers, his acknowledgement of the aggressive drive underlying all imperial ventures, his willingness to criticize Rome, his concern for the interests of subject nations, the promotion of his own political views, and his willingness to contemplate the end of Roman power.
| ISBN | 0715639420 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780715639429
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 517 | | Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Bristol Classical Press | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 26 May 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 937.04 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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