Polybius: Book 8 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009265857 ISBN 13 : 9781009265850

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Polybius is one of the most remarkable ancient historians, excelling as source, theorist and writer. Book 8 shows many sides of this extraordinary author: the superb narrator, recounting the tragic end of the potentate Achaeus and Hannibal's diverting capture of Tarentum with the aid of wild boar; the technical writer on Archimedes' sensational machines for destroying Roman ships; the zestful polemicist, railing against Theopompus' diatribe on the friends of Philip II; the thinker about history and the interconnection of world events. This edition, the first of its kind, includes a new text of Book 8 and an introduction to the book and Polybius as a whole. The commentary provides a wealth of historical and archaeological material and will enable readers to understand Polybius' Hellenistic Greek and appreciate his expression and artistry. It will help intermediate and advanced students, as well as scholars, enjoy Polybius as a writer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

G. O. HUTCHINSON is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at the University of Oxford. He has published numerous books on many different aspects of Greek and Latin literature, including an edition in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series of Propertius' Elegies Book IV (2006). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009265857
• ISBN 13: 9781009265850
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Éditeur: Hutchinson G. O.
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