SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Historiography: Polybius

»Polybius (/pəˈlɪbiəs/; Ancient Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was an ancient Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covers the period 264–146, recording in detail events in Italy, Iberia, Greece, Macedonia, Syria, Egypt and Africa, and documents the Punic Wars and Macedonian Wars among many others.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Historíai (Histories)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Polybius' Histories (Ancient Greek: Ἱστορίαι Historíai) were originally written in 40 volumes, only the first five of which are extant in their entirety. The bulk of the work was passed down through collections of excerpts kept in libraries in the Byzantine Empire. Polybius, a historian from the Greek city of Megalopolis in Arcadia, was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman victory in the Third Macedonian War (171–168 BC), and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a great power.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Roman History

II. Geographical Index: -

III. Topical Index: Wartime Sexual Violence: Second Punic War

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Cosgrave, Elinor G. Captive-taking in the Late Roman Republic and Early Principate: Historical Realities and Elite Representations. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, 2021.

II. Speaker Index