Polybius (born ca. 208 BCE) of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea), served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was hostage in Rome where he became a friend of Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, and especially adopted Scipio Aemilianus whose campaigns he attended later. In late life he was trusted mediator b...
Polybius (born ca. 208 BCE) of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea), served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was hostage in Rome where he became a friend of Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, and especially adopted Scipio Aemilianus whose campaigns he attended later. In late life he was trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans whom he admired; helped in the discussions which preceded the final war with Carthage; and, after 146, was entrusted by the Romans with details of administration in Greece. He died at the age of 82 after a fall from his horse.
The main part of Polybius's history covers the years 264–146 BCE. It describes the rise of Rome to the destruction of Carthage and the domination of Greece by Rome. It is a great work, accurate, thoughtful, largely impartial, based on research, full of insight into customs, institutions, geography, causes of events and character of people; it is a vital achievement of first rate importance, despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five of the forty books have reached us. Polybius's overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Polybius is in six volumes.
For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans in p5less than fifty-three years have succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government — a thing unique in history? (查看原文)
The date from which Ipropose to begin my history is the 140th Olympiad, and the events are the following: (1)in Greece the so‑called Social War, the first waged against the Aetolians by the Achaeans in league with and under the leadership of Philip of Macedon, the son of Demetrius and father of Perseus, (2)in Asia the war for Coele-Syria between Antiochus and Ptolemy Philopator, (查看原文)
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1 有用 我就是喜歡得瑟 2009-04-16 16:32:18
一套。然后找得我要死。
1 有用 地中海以北往东 2014-10-24 16:03:34
值得注意的是他对于后来西塞罗等罗马人对自己政制理解的影响
2 有用 姜一枚 2017-06-18 16:55:08
我也许理解错你了，你可能就只是个错误连篇的毫无远见的像马基雅维利又像荷马像爱国者又像叛国贼的平庸无趣的历史学家，是不是？
0 有用 Potato 2024-01-27 10:22:30 美国
I hate Polybius!!!!
1 有用 kiyo 2019-06-13 19:50:07
讀完了。心情複雜