Canadian Journal of History, March 22nd, 2006
Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories, by Craige B. Champion. Hellenistic Culture and Society, number 61. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. xv, 328 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Polybius, Greek statesman and Roman captive who, in the second century BCE, wrote the first history of Rome, holds third place of honour in the great triumvirate of Greek historians. Just as the astonishing victory of a small number of Greek poleis over the mighty Persian empire had created a Herodotean history based on the bipolarity of Hellene and barbarian, and the pathetic dismemberment of imperial Athe...
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