波里比阿,古希腊历史学家。公元前168年因政治立场可疑,被羁留在罗马十七年,成为“非洲征服者”小西庇阿(Scipio Aemilianus)的导师与密友,并成为罗马上层社会的一员。
公元前151年,小西庇阿带他去西班牙和非洲,亲眼目睹了迦太基的毁灭。因此波里比阿有机会亲身经历那个时代最重要的军事及政治事件,这为他的历史著作提供了第一手的资料。
译者翁嘉声,台湾成功大学历史系专任教授,专业领域为希腊罗马古典文明以及古代教会史。
Polybius (born ca. 208 BCE) of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea), served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was hostage in Rome where he became a friend of Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, and especially adopted Scipio Aemilianus whose campaigns he attended later. In late life he was trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans whom he admired; helped in the discussions which preceded the final war with Carthage; and, after 146, was entrusted by the Romans with details of administration in Greece. He died at the age of 82 after a fall from his horse.
The main part of Polybius's history covers the years 264–146 BCE. It describes the rise of Rome to the destruction of Carthage and the domination of Greece by Rome. It is a great work, accurate, thoughtful, largely impartial, based on research, full of insight into customs, institutions, geography, causes of events and character of people; it is a vital achievement of first rate importance, despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five of the forty books have reached us. Polybius's overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Polybius is in six volumes.
混合政体,让罗马跳出了政体蜕变的历史循环。 什么是政体蜕变的历史循环呢?原来,波里比阿为了解释混合政体的优势,创造出了一种政体循环理论。简单来说,就是政体的产生和更替不是随机性、偶然性的,而是遵循一个闭合的循环规律。 那我们就来看看这个循环规律是怎么回事。波...
评分 评分经典的史书。如导读所说,波里比阿的作品在数千年的传播过程中多有散失与缺漏,留存下来的部分包括该译本的主要内容讲述的就是迦太基与罗马之间的前两次生死对决以及当时西方世界主要国家的一些历史发展。除了作为一部早期世界史之外,波里比阿《历史》的主旨相当明了,如他自...
评分不知道英文版企鵝的人什麼想法,波里比阿一再強調普世史的屬性他們還把希臘化世界歷史的部分刪去那麼多,和網上的原書對比後真是怒不能已。希臘化歷史的第一手材料基本就來源於這部著作,反倒是羅馬方面布匿戰爭等等有一大堆相同題材。最可恨是節錄反倒還把波里比阿噴人的大段...
值得注意的是他对于后来西塞罗等罗马人对自己政制理解的影响
评分翻译看起来似乎有些过于现代化了……(by the grace of God这种具有明显基督教色彩的用法都出来了),和Evelyn S. Shuckburgh的译本比较的话似乎后者略胜一筹(有些地方的措辞Shuckburgh处理得比Paton更好,当然这仅就Book21-30而言)。但Shuckburgh不标Section且编码系统已经同现代版本脱节,so
评分一套。然后找得我要死。
评分值得注意的是他对于后来西塞罗等罗马人对自己政制理解的影响
评分我也许理解错你了,你可能就只是个错误连篇的毫无远见的像马基雅维利又像荷马像爱国者又像叛国贼的平庸无趣的历史学家,是不是?
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