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Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors.

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"Smart and sophisticated. A work that is simultaneously a sensitive study of a major Greek historian and a probing analysis of the Greco-Roman society in which his history was produced." - John Marincola, author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography"

Cultural Politics in Polybiuss Histories

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/08/2004
      ISBN13: 9780520237643, 978-0520237643
      ISBN10: 0520237641

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors.

      Trade Review
      "Smart and sophisticated. A work that is simultaneously a sensitive study of a major Greek historian and a probing analysis of the Greco-Roman society in which his history was produced." - John Marincola, author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography"

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