Peter Derow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5626871 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Derow |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Derow |
| ASSINATURA | DEROW P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Polybius
This chapter presents a general account of the life and works of Polybius before placing him within the Greek historical tradition. It considers Polybius's historical account of the process whereby the Mediterranean world came to be conquered by Rome and how its several peoples (including the Romans) fared during the time of Roman rule. It also looks at Polybius's enumeration of Timaeus's defects as a historian, which reflects what he thought his…
Imperium, Imperial Space and Empire1
This chapter examines the Roman conception of empire in the 190s, with particular reference to the fundamental tension between Hellenistic Greece's notions of ‘imperial space’ and Rome's idea of imperium. It first provides an overview of the affairs of Greece between 196 and 192 before turning to Polybius's portrayal of the situation in Greece in relation to the defence of Philopoimen he offered to the Roman commissioners in 146/52. It then consi…
Polybios and the Embassy of Kallikrates
This chapter examines Polybius's account of the embassy of Kallikrates of Leontion, ambassador from the Achaian League to Rome. More specifically, it considers Polybius's argument that Kallikrates's embassy did not provide any real benefit for Rome and was the cause of the great misfortunes for all the Greeks. In 180 bc, Kallikrates advised the Roman Senate to intervene in local politics in the democratic states of Greece, a move for which he has…
Historical Explanation
This chapter focuses on one of the essential features of Polybius's approach to history: the need to find explanations. It begins with an overview of Greek historiography, focusing on the work of Herodotus and Thucydides as well as Hecataeus, before turning to Polybius. In particular, it examines Polybius's interpretation of the war between Antiochus and the Romans. Finally, it describes Greece under Rome's dominion.
Pharos and Rome
This chapter examines Louis Robert's texts about an inscription from Stari Grad on the Adriatic island of Hvar that bears evidence about the relations between Rome and the Greek city of Pharos. The texts suggest that Pharos had an alliance with Rome from some point in the third century bc. Apollonia and Corcyra and, to a lesser extent, Epidamnos, served regularly as landing and staging points during Rome's wars against Philip, Antiochus, and Pers…
Rome Polybius and the East
Rome, Polybius, and the East offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow, Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford, during the course of his career. With a detailed introduction by the editors, the papers make up a distinctive and influential body of work--essential reading for anyone interested in Roman imperialism or Polybius, and Rome's rise to Mediterranean power. The…
The Hellenistic Period
Herodotus and his World
This book contains detailed studies of a number of individual passages and episodes (which always turn out to have wider ramifications for the understanding of Herodotus or for the history of the archaic and classical Greek world, or both) as well as considerations of wider themes (perceptions of ethnicity and ideas of ‘tradition’, of historical space and about the origins of history). Topics included are: prophecy, oracle-selling, and resurrecti…
Herodotus Readings
C. Carsana, La teoria della “costituzione mista” nell’ età imperiale romana (Biblioteca di Athenaeum XIII). Como
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Rome, the fall of Macedon and the sack of Corinth
The Greeks found in Rome a master such as Philip had never come near to being, stronger and more deleterious. The Boeotians, fearful of effecting a rupture in their friendly relations with Macedon, declined and sent an embassy to Rome, where Zeuxippus represented himself. It is as early as 175 that Livy can say anxiety about the Macedonian war beset them. In the previous year embassies had arrived at Rome from the Dardani complaining of attacks b…
An Inscription from Chios
In 1951 the late N. M. Kontoleon carried out a small excavation beside the church of Agioi Anargyroi, some 200 yards west of the main square of modern Chios town. In the wall of an undated tomb linked physically but not chronologically with an also undated basilica he discovered an inscription which, with his usual generosity, he allowed W. G. F. to copy, squeeze, and photograph in 1952. Unfortunately Kontoleon did not find time to give more than…
Polybius, Rome, and the East
Sixteen years ago, in an article entitled ‘Polybius and Rome's eastern policy,’ F. W. Walbank raised and examined aspects of what seemed to be an absolutely central flaw in the fabric of Polybius’ account of Roman expansion in the Greek world. The situation that he saw both then and a decade later in his Sather Lectures on Polybius may be put briefly, and I hope fairly, as follows. Polybius believed that Rome's eastern expansion came as the consc…
The Roman Calendar, 218-191 B. C
THIS ENQUIRY takes its beginning from an earlier article in Phoenix, of which it is in fact a retrogressive continuation.1 The aim there was to establish the relation of the Roman calendar to the real (or extrapolated Julian) year between 190 and 168 B.c. Here the attempt will be made to do the same for the rest of the years covered by the last two and a half surviving decades of Livy's history. In the former case the task was rendered easier by …
The Roman Calendar, 190-168 B. C
IT HAS BEEN SAID that there is not enough evidence to support a complete system of equivalents between dates in the pre-Julian Roman calendar on the one hand and dates in an extrapolated Julian calendar on the other.' There is no question that this is true for most of the history of the Republic, but it has never seemed that attempts to do this for the years covered by the last 25 of the surviving books of Livy, 218-167 B.C., were so necessarily …
Kleemporos
Death and Taxes
The Athenian Aristocracy 399 to 31 B. C
Herodotus and his World
This book contains detailed studies of a number of individual passages and episodes (which always turn out to have wider ramifications for the understanding of Herodotus or for the history of the archaic and classical Greek world, or both) as well as considerations of wider themes (perceptions of ethnicity and ideas of ‘tradition’, of historical space and about the origins of history). Topics included are: prophecy, oracle-selling, and resurrecti…
Herodotus Readings
The Roman Calendar, 218-191 B. C
THIS ENQUIRY takes its beginning from an earlier article in Phoenix, of which it is in fact a retrogressive continuation.1 The aim there was to establish the relation of the Roman calendar to the real (or extrapolated Julian) year between 190 and 168 B.c. Here the attempt will be made to do the same for the rest of the years covered by the last two and a half surviving decades of Livy's history. In the former case the task was rendered easier by …
The Roman Calendar, 190-168 B. C
IT HAS BEEN SAID that there is not enough evidence to support a complete system of equivalents between dates in the pre-Julian Roman calendar on the one hand and dates in an extrapolated Julian calendar on the other.' There is no question that this is true for most of the history of the Republic, but it has never seemed that attempts to do this for the years covered by the last 25 of the surviving books of Livy, 218-167 B.C., were so necessarily …
Death and Taxes
The Athenian Aristocracy 399 to 31 B. C
The Roman Calendar, 190-168 B. C
IT HAS BEEN SAID that there is not enough evidence to support a complete system of equivalents between dates in the pre-Julian Roman calendar on the one hand and dates in an extrapolated Julian calendar on the other.' There is no question that this is true for most of the history of the Republic, but it has never seemed that attempts to do this for the years covered by the last 25 of the surviving books of Livy, 218-167 B.C., were so necessarily …
Kleemporos
Death and Taxes
The Roman Calendar, 218-191 B. C
THIS ENQUIRY takes its beginning from an earlier article in Phoenix, of which it is in fact a retrogressive continuation.1 The aim there was to establish the relation of the Roman calendar to the real (or extrapolated Julian) year between 190 and 168 B.c. Here the attempt will be made to do the same for the rest of the years covered by the last two and a half surviving decades of Livy's history. In the former case the task was rendered easier by …
Polybius, Rome, and the East
Sixteen years ago, in an article entitled ‘Polybius and Rome's eastern policy,’ F. W. Walbank raised and examined aspects of what seemed to be an absolutely central flaw in the fabric of Polybius’ account of Roman expansion in the Greek world. The situation that he saw both then and a decade later in his Sather Lectures on Polybius may be put briefly, and I hope fairly, as follows. Polybius believed that Rome's eastern expansion came as the consc…
An Inscription from Chios
In 1951 the late N. M. Kontoleon carried out a small excavation beside the church of Agioi Anargyroi, some 200 yards west of the main square of modern Chios town. In the wall of an undated tomb linked physically but not chronologically with an also undated basilica he discovered an inscription which, with his usual generosity, he allowed W. G. F. to copy, squeeze, and photograph in 1952. Unfortunately Kontoleon did not find time to give more than…
Rome, the fall of Macedon and the sack of Corinth
The Greeks found in Rome a master such as Philip had never come near to being, stronger and more deleterious. The Boeotians, fearful of effecting a rupture in their friendly relations with Macedon, declined and sent an embassy to Rome, where Zeuxippus represented himself. It is as early as 175 that Livy can say anxiety about the Macedonian war beset them. In the previous year embassies had arrived at Rome from the Dardani complaining of attacks b…
C. Carsana, La teoria della “costituzione mista” nell’ età imperiale romana (Biblioteca di Athenaeum XIII). Como
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Herodotus Readings
Herodotus and his World
This book contains detailed studies of a number of individual passages and episodes (which always turn out to have wider ramifications for the understanding of Herodotus or for the history of the archaic and classical Greek world, or both) as well as considerations of wider themes (perceptions of ethnicity and ideas of ‘tradition’, of historical space and about the origins of history). Topics included are: prophecy, oracle-selling, and resurrecti…
The Hellenistic Period
Polybius
This chapter presents a general account of the life and works of Polybius before placing him within the Greek historical tradition. It considers Polybius's historical account of the process whereby the Mediterranean world came to be conquered by Rome and how its several peoples (including the Romans) fared during the time of Roman rule. It also looks at Polybius's enumeration of Timaeus's defects as a historian, which reflects what he thought his…
Imperium, Imperial Space and Empire1
This chapter examines the Roman conception of empire in the 190s, with particular reference to the fundamental tension between Hellenistic Greece's notions of ‘imperial space’ and Rome's idea of imperium. It first provides an overview of the affairs of Greece between 196 and 192 before turning to Polybius's portrayal of the situation in Greece in relation to the defence of Philopoimen he offered to the Roman commissioners in 146/52. It then consi…
Polybios and the Embassy of Kallikrates
This chapter examines Polybius's account of the embassy of Kallikrates of Leontion, ambassador from the Achaian League to Rome. More specifically, it considers Polybius's argument that Kallikrates's embassy did not provide any real benefit for Rome and was the cause of the great misfortunes for all the Greeks. In 180 bc, Kallikrates advised the Roman Senate to intervene in local politics in the democratic states of Greece, a move for which he has…
Historical Explanation
This chapter focuses on one of the essential features of Polybius's approach to history: the need to find explanations. It begins with an overview of Greek historiography, focusing on the work of Herodotus and Thucydides as well as Hecataeus, before turning to Polybius. In particular, it examines Polybius's interpretation of the war between Antiochus and the Romans. Finally, it describes Greece under Rome's dominion.
Pharos and Rome
This chapter examines Louis Robert's texts about an inscription from Stari Grad on the Adriatic island of Hvar that bears evidence about the relations between Rome and the Greek city of Pharos. The texts suggest that Pharos had an alliance with Rome from some point in the third century bc. Apollonia and Corcyra and, to a lesser extent, Epidamnos, served regularly as landing and staging points during Rome's wars against Philip, Antiochus, and Pers…
Rome Polybius and the East
Rome, Polybius, and the East offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow, Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford, during the course of his career. With a detailed introduction by the editors, the papers make up a distinctive and influential body of work--essential reading for anyone interested in Roman imperialism or Polybius, and Rome's rise to Mediterranean power. The…
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