27 juin 2023
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Daniel Barbo, « Temporal Perspective of Polybius’ Historiographical Method », Ausonius Éditions, ID : 10670/1.gbll9x
Polybius’ work, according to the preserved fragments of the author, narrates the history of the Roman conquest from the beginning of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) to the submission of Macedonia in the Third Roman-Macedonian War (171-168 BC). Polybius takes the second war between Rome and Carthage as the starting point of his history because of the simultaneity of this event with two other major conflicts: the dispute between Antiochus III and Ptolemy IV Philopator in the Fourth Syrian War...