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Acknowledgments 8 Contents 10 Introduction 12 1 Well begun is half done 17 1.1 The proem (1.1–5) 18 1.2 The Romans’ first crossing into Sicily (1.6–12) 24 1.2.1 Where to begin 24 1.2.2 Rhegium and Messana: The issue of mercenaries 29 1.2.3 The intervention of Rome 32 2 The narrative of the prokataskeue 41 2.1 The First Punic War (1.13–63) 41 2.1.1 The theme of naval supremacy 43 2.1.2 The story of Hannibal the ‘Rhodian’ (1.46–47) as Mise en Abyme 48 2.1.3 Romans and Carthaginians 50 2.2 The Roman Wars against the Illyrians (2.2–12) and the Gauls (2.14–35) 58 3 Temporal strategies 69 3.1 Synchronicity 69 3.2 The interlace structure of book 3 75 3.2.1 Spain and Illyria (3.13–34) 76 3.2.1.1 The Romans’ strategic error 76 3.2.1.2 Hannibal 79 3.2.2 Hannibal’s march on Italy (3.35–3.57.1) 81 3.3 Order 85 3.3.1 Analepses 85 3.3.2 Prolepses 90 4 Focalization and interpretation 95 4.1 The theatre of war 98 4.2 The attribution of motives 103 4.3 The Carthaginians in Italy (3.69–117) 110 4.4 The Romans in Africa (14.1–15.9) 117 5 The Polybian narrator 126 5.1 The primary narrator 127 5.1.1 The narrator as writer 128 5.1.2 The narrator as historian 131 5.1.3 The narrator as critic 136 5.2 Poly

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Author

Trends in classics.;Polybe.;Polybius.;Polybius;Miltsios, Nikos

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Published

2013

Language

EN

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nonfiction