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Contents 5 Preface 7 Abbreviations 9 Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series 11 Introduction 13 Chapter 1 History and Experience in Polybius 19 1 Introduction 19 2 Empeiria and Learning from History 20 3 Polybius and the Purpose of “Pragmatic” History 26 4 The Value of Experience in Polybius 30 5 The Value of History in Polybius 32 6 Three Approaches to Knowledge: Experience, History, and Scientific Study 35 7 Methodikē empeiria 37 8 Experience and the Historian 41 9 Conclusion 44 Chapter 2 Hannibal, Practical Experience, and the Model Historian 47 1 Introduction 47 2 Hannibal as a New, Young Commander 50 3 Hannibal’s Monument 53 4 Hannibal’s Research for the Invasion of Italy 56 5 Crossing the Alps and the Historian 60 6 Hannibal vs. Rome 62 7 Interpreting the Past at Cannae 67 8 Hannibal’s Advice to Tarentum 70 9 Hannibal and the Mutability of Fortune 72 10 Hannibal and Scipio Africanus 74 11 Conclusion 79 Chapter 3 Learning from History 82 1 Introduction 82 2 Mankind’s Failure to Learn from History 82 3 Philip V and the Failure to Learn from History 87 4 Philip V and the Failure to Teach through History 89 5 Scipio Africanus and Learning from the Past 91 6 History vs. Exper

Author

Moore, Daniel;

Published

2020

Language

EN