Cultural Politics in Polybius s Histories 1st Edition by Craige Champion ISBN 0520237641 978-0520237643

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ISBN 10: 0520237641 

ISBN 13: 978-0520237643

Author: Craige Champion

 Polybius was a Greek statesman and political prisoner of Rome in the second century b.c.e. His Histories provide the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire. In this original study informed by recent work in cultural studies and on ethnicity, Craige Champion demonstrates that Polybius’s work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest.

Champion shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Champion focuses primarily on the ideological presuppositions and predispositions of Polybius’s different audiences in order to interpret the apparent contradictions and incongruities in his text. In this way he develops a “politics of cultural indeterminacy” in which Polybius’s collective representations of political and ethnic groups have different meanings for different audiences in different contexts. Situating these representations in the ideological, political, and historical contexts from which they arose, his book affords new and penetrating insights into a work whose subtlety and complexity have gone largely unrecognized.

Table of contents:

 
PART I. HISTORICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS
PART II. TEXT AND NARRATIVE
PART III. IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS

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