Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories
Regina M. Loehr, "Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories "
English | ISBN: 1032423625 | 2023 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 931 KB + 20 MB
English | ISBN: 1032423625 | 2023 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 931 KB + 20 MB
This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history.
How and why did ancient historians include emotions in their texts? This book argues that in the Histories of Polybius – the Greek historian who recorded Rome’s rise to dominion in the ancient Mediterranean – emotions play an effective role in history, used by the historian to explain the causes of actions, connect events, and make sense of human behavior. Through analysis of the emotions in the narrative and theory of Polybius’
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