Histories
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Histories is the major historical work of the ancient Greek historian Polybius, chronicling the rise of the Roman Republic to Mediterranean dominance in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient historical work
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history book ⓘ literary work ⓘ |
| aim | to explain how Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean world ⓘ |
| author | Polybius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| booksSurvivingCompletely | Books 1–5 ⓘ |
| contains | fragments of later books ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
| focusesOnEvent |
Battle of Cannae
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Zama NERFINISHED ⓘ First Punic War NERFINISHED ⓘ Punic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman conquest of Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Punic War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOnPlace |
Carthage
NERFINISHED
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Hellenistic Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Mediterranean region NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historiography
ⓘ
political history ⓘ |
| hasGreekTitle | Ἱστορίαι NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historianDescribed |
Achaean League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hannibal NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip V of Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ Scipio Africanus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalApproach | universal history ⓘ |
| influenced |
Greek historiography
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Montesquieu NERFINISHED ⓘ Niccolò Machiavelli NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman historiography ⓘ modern republican theory ⓘ political theory ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Roman expansion in the Mediterranean
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rise of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| methodologicalFeature |
autopsy and eyewitness inquiry
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critical use of sources ⓘ pragmatic history ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
anacyclosis
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mixed constitution ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksPlanned | 40 ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksSurvivingCompletely | 5 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | partially preserved ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
2nd century BCE
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3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| writtenInCentury | 2nd century BCE ⓘ |
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