Polybius : experience and the lessons of history
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Polybius : experience and the lessons of history
（Historiography of Rome and its empire / series editors, Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen, v. 6）
Brill, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-160) and indexes
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Description
The Greek historian Polybius (2nd century B.C.E.) produced an authoritative history of Rome's rise to dominance in the Mediterranean that was explicitly designed to convey valuable lessons to future generations. But throughout this history, Polybius repeatedly emphasizes the incomparable value of first-hand, practical experience. In Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History, Daniel Walker Moore shows how Polybius integrates these two apparently competing concepts in a way that affects not just his educational philosophy but the construction of his historical narrative. The manner in which figures such as Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, or even the Romans as a whole learn and develop over the course of Polybius' narrative becomes a critical factor in Rome's ultimate success.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 History and Experience in Polybius
1 Introduction
2 Empeiria and Learning from History
3 Polybius and the Purpose of "Pragmatic" History
4 The Value of Experience in Polybius
5 The Value of History in Polybius
6 Three Approaches to Knowledge: Experience, History, and Scientific Study
7 Methodike empeiria
8 Experience and the Historian
9 Conclusion
2 Hannibal, Practical Experience, and the Model Historian
1 Introduction
2 Hannibal as a New, Young Commander
3 Hannibal's Monument
4 Hannibal's Research for the Invasion of Italy
5 Crossing the Alps and the Historian
6 Hannibal vs. Rome
7 Interpreting the Past at Cannae
8 Hannibal's Advice to Tarentum
9 Hannibal and the Mutability of Fortune
10 Hannibal and Scipio Africanus
11 Conclusion
3 Learning from History
1 Introduction
2 Mankind's Failure to Learn from History
3 Philip V and the Failure to Learn from History
4 Philip V and the Failure to Teach through History
5 Scipio Africanus and Learning from the Past
6 History vs. Experience
7 Conclusion
4 Experience and History in the Roman Constitution
1 Introduction
2 Reason and Practical Experience in the Anakyklosis
3 Practical Experience and the Mixed Constitution
4 The Aristocratic Funeral
5 The Aristocratic Funeral and History
6 The Example of Horatius Cocles
7 Conclusion
5 Roman Innovation in Polybius' Narrative
1 Introduction
2 Roman Innovations in the First Punic War
3 Roman Innovations in Contrast to their Adversaries
4 Learning from Experience in the Second Punic War
5 The Value of One Exceptional Individual
6 Conclusion
6 Exemplary Roman History
1 Introduction
2 Aemilius Paullus and the Lessons of Pydna
3 Scipio Aemilianus and the Exemplary Past
4 Scipio Aemilianus as Example for Contemporaries
5 Scipio Aemilianus as Historical Example
6 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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