Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Welcome to the Liverpool conferenceF.W. Walbank:
1: Bruce Gibson and Thomas Harrison: Introduction: F.W. Walbank, Polybius and the decline of Greece
2: John Henderson: A piece of work which would occupy some years. OUP Archive Files 814152, 814173, 814011
3: John Marincola: Polybius, Phylarchus and 'Tragic History': A Reconsideration
4: Andrew Meadows: Polybius, Aratus and the history of the 140th Olympiad
5: John Briscoe: Some misunderstandings of Polybius in Livy
6: Hans Beck: Polybius Roman prokataskeue
7: Craige Champion: Historiographic Patterns and Historical Obstacles in Polybius' Histories: Marcellus, Flaminius, and the Mamertine Crisis
8: Bruce Gibson: Polybius and Xenophon: the Mercenary War
9: B.C. McGing: Youthfulness in Polybius: the case of Philip V of Macedon
10: Boris Dreyer: Frank Walbank's Philippos Tragoidoumenos: Polybius' account of Philip's last years
11: John Thornton: Polybius in Context: the Political Dimension of the Histories
12: Andrew Erskine: How to Rule the World: Polybius book 6 reconsidered
13: Robin Seager: Polybius distortions of the Roman constitution : a simpl(istic) explanation
14: Erich S. Gruen: Polybius and Josephus on Rome
15: Christel Müller: The rise and fall of the Boeotians: Polybius 20.4-7 as a literary topos
16: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer: Zeno of Rhodes and the Rhodian view of the past
17: Michael Sommer: The mighty and the sage: Scipio Aemilianus, Polybius and the quest for friendship in second century Rome
18: J.K. Davies: Mediterranean economies through the text of Polybios
19: Josephine Crawley Quinn: Imagining the Imperial Mediterranean
20: Mitzi Walbank: Growing up with Polybius
Bibliography
Index of passages cited
General index

About the Author

Bruce Gibson is Professor of Latin, Liverpool University Thomas Harrison is Professor of of Ancient History, Liverpool University

Reviews

[a] high-quality collection ... offer[s] a clear snapshot of the state of Polybian studies post-Walbank.
*Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement*