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Klappentext This volume contains a selection of Professor F. W. Walbank's papers on classical Greco-Roman subjects. Zusammenfassung This volume contains a selection of Professor F. W. Walbank's more important and influential papers covering a wide range of classical Greco-Roman subjects. These papers cover the role of nationality! problems of history! Polybius! Ptolemy IV and Ptolemy Epiphanes. A full bibliography of the author's publications concludes the volume. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. Greek Papers: 1. The problem of Greek nationality; 2. Were there Greek federal states?; 3. The accession of Ptolemy Epiphanes: a problem in chronology; Part II. Roman Papers: 4. Nationality as a factor in Roman history; 5. Polybius, Philinus and the First Punic War; 6. Naval triarii (Polyb. 1.26.6); 7. Roman declaration of war in the third and second centuries; 8. Some reflections on Hannibal's pass; 9. The Scipionic legend; 10. Polybius and Rome's eastern policy; 11. Political morality and the friends of Scipio; 12. A note on the embassy of Q. Marcius Philippus, 172 BC; 13. Via illa nostra militaris: some thoughts on the Via Egnatia; Part III. Historiographical Papers: 14. ¿¿¿¿¿¿ö ¿¿¿y¿¿ö¿¿¿ö: a Polybian experiment; 15. History and tragedy; 16. Speeches in Greek historians; 17. Polemic in Polybius; 18. Polybius between Greece and Rome; 19. Synchronisms in Polybius, Books IV and V; 20. Symploke: its role in Polybius' Histories; 21. Polybius' last ten books; Publications of F. W. Walbank, 1933-1984; Indexes 1-4.
