Tag Archives: Polybius

Horatius at the Bridge: Man or Myth?

by Andrew Rattray Where does history end and myth begin? It’s a question that often doesn’t have a clear answer. Even in ancient times, the answer could prove elusive. Such is the case of Horatius and his heroic stand against the Etruscans. It’s a story that has endured through the centuries, recurring in all sorts

Written on September 7, 2021 at 5:08 pm, by Programmer

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Horatius Cocles, Lars Porsena, Livy, Plutarch, Polybius, Roman history

Greece Versus Rome: Polybius Decides

By Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom It is the eternal question for all classics enthusiasts: brawn versus brains, power versus beauty, empire versus empiricism – Rome versus Greece. Which team do you support? Of course the equation is far, far more complex than that. Indeed, most of the choices listed above are somewhere on

Written on March 3, 2021 at 8:09 am, by Ben Potter

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Categories: History

Tags: Greece versus rome, History, Polybius, Roman Consitution, Roman Senate, Senate, The Rise of the Roman Empire

Man: The Political Animal

Written by David Hooker, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Tragic Road to Tyranny Imagine your leader is a brilliant and bold military genius who, through multiple conquests, has expanded the borders of your country by orders of magnitude. He does it because he and some of your leaders have ambitions of empire, need of new

Written on March 20, 2020 at 10:00 am, by David Hooker

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Aristotle, Athenian Democracy, democracy, freedom, game of thrones, greek democracy, Julius Caesar, monarchy, oligarchy, Plato, Politics, Polybius, populism, tyranny

Thucydides Vs Herodotus: Which Historian Wins?

By Ben Potter There has been a great deal of focus on the differences between Herodotus and Thucydides. Both men have been granted the ‘father of history’ accolade, but chronologically Herodotus must be the winner of the distinction as Thucydides picks up where he leaves off. For those in need of a quick recap, Herodotus

Written on July 23, 2018 at 10:59 pm, by plato

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Categories: Historians

Tags: Ancient Historians, Father of History, Herodotus, History of the Peloponnesian War, Homer, Niccolo Machiavelli, Pliny the Elder, Polybius, The Histories, Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, U.S. Naval College

The Talented Mr. Polybius

By Ben Potter Polybius was born 200 BC in Megaopolis, Arcadia. A town both geographically and politically at the heart of the Peloponnese, from where it seemed Polybius was destined for a lifetime of political greatness. After being given the honor of publicly bearing the skilled Greek general and statesman, Philopoemen’s ashes in 182 BC,

Written on March 24, 2018 at 8:00 am, by plato

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Categories: Historians

Tags: constitution, Historians, History, John Adams, Polybius