EK TÃ"N POLUBIOU TOU MEGALOPOLITOU EKLOGAI PERI PRESBEIÃ"N. Ex libris Polybii Megalopolitani Selecta de legationibus; et alia quae sequenti pagina indicantur: Nunc primum in lucem edita. Ex bibliotheca Fulvii Ursini.

Polybius

Edité par Antwerp, 1582

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Fragmenta Ex Historiis Quae Non Extant Dionysii Halicarnassei Diodori Siculi Appiani Alexandrini Dionys Cassii Nicaei De Legationibus Dionys Lib LXXIX Et LXXX imperfectus Emendationes In Polybium impressum Basileae per Ioannem Hervagium Anno MDXXIX LATIN TEXT dated 1582 4to 2 parts The first part p 1294 contains the Greek text of Polybius Selecta de legationibus p 295447 contain the Selecta de legationibus of Dionysius Halicarnassensis Diodorus Siculus Appianus and Dio Cassius The first 148 pages of the second part contain the Fulvi Ursini notae in Polybium followed by 34 pages with Ursinus emendationes in Polybium taken from the Basle edition of Johannes Hervagius of 1529 Front board entirely detached damp stained with loss to corners and general rubbing though lovely stamped ornament with decorative blind tooling and double fillet still very visible same to rear though condition is slightly better leather very dry Lighter leather insert to spine with gilt titling bands and floral motifs loss to head and tail Handlined note page to front and rear and woodcut printers device to title Text block stained commensurate with age Internally remarkably clear and undamaged despite slight browningdamp staining to page edges The Greek author Polybius ca 200 118 BC born at Megalopolis is the historian of the rise of Rome to world power After the lost battle at Pydna in 168 where Greece lost its independence young Polybius was among 1000 other eminent Achaeans deported to Rome and held hostage there In Rome he became a member of the circle of the Roman magistrate Scipio Aemilianus whom he accompanied on his campaigns through Spain and Africa There he developed a warm admiration for the Romans Of Polybius Histories consisting of 42 books only the first 5 books are extant the rest is lost except excerpts the socalled Constantinean Excerpts or Selecta which survived His original purpose was to narrate the history of the 53 years 220168 from the Hannibalic War to Pydna which left Rome mistress of the world OCD 2nd ed p 853 He did so from a Roman point of view Later in life he extented his work to the year 120 Polybius aim was didactic he wanted to inform the statesman and to teach the general reader how to face disaster OCD He narrated and analysed political and military events to bring out their causes The rise of Rome to her deserved and destined supremacy over the civilized world was according to him the work of Destiny He was the last Greek historian who may claim high rank Polybius was widely read in Byzantine times and after his rediscovery in the West the Florentine statesman Macchiavelli used him as a political thinker He was edited and analysed by great philologists like Poliziano and Casaubon The Constantinean Excerpts of which the Selecta de Legationibus or Excerpta de Legationibus On diplomacy form part were compiled when the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus 913959 ordered the creation of a kind of encyclopaedias of History Agriculture and Medicine They were to contain excerpts from the most important ancient texts most of which are now lost Overall a fascinating object with rich historical value and a key insight into lost texts PRICE HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ALLOW FOR NECESSARY RESTORATIONnbsp.

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• Titre: EK TÃ"N POLUBIOU TOU MEGALOPOLITOU EKLOGAI PERI PRESBEIÃ"N. Ex libris Polybii Megalopolitani Selecta de legationibus; et alia quae sequenti pagina indicantur: Nunc primum in lucem edita. Ex bibliotheca Fulvii Ursini.
• Éditeur: Antwerp
• Date de parution: 1582
• Reliure: Hardback
• Type de livre: book