Leadership and Leaders in Polybius

Nikos Miltsios

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Leadership and Leaders in Polybius

Nikos Miltsios

Volume 145 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111239538

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About this book

The issue of leadership is crucial to Polybius’ desire to explain the rise of Rome over almost the entire known world and provide benefit and utility to readers who may have to assume positions of responsibility. This book focuses on descriptions of leadership behaviors in the Histories, aiming to identify regularly recurring patterns, motifs, and themes in the relevant passages, which could, precisely because of their persistence, heighten our sensitivity to the subtleties of Polybius’ treatment of the subject. Given that the interest in leadership permeates Polybius’ work and engages with his main thematic concerns, this study brings the reader face-to-face with questions of power and control, identity and nationality, the role of fortune, narrative strategies, thereby providing a basis for reading the Histories more generally. At the same time, a major concern throughout the book is with the ways Polybius’ representation of leadership seems to have been influenced by literary depictions of the conquests of Alexander the Great. Polybius’ interplay with his literary context and tradition deepens our understanding of what he is trying to accomplish in the narrative and how he is interacting with the expectations of his audiences.

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Nikos Miltsios, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1 Charismatic Leadership: The Case of Philip V Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Effective Leadership Behaviors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3 Ineffective Leadership Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4 Leadership and the Vicissitudes of Fortune Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5 Collective Leadership: The Romans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6 Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Classics, ancient historiography, and Polybius
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 176
Keywords: Polybius; Leaders and Leadership; Alexander the Great; Narrative

eBook

Published: June 19, 2023
ISBN: 9783111239538

Hardcover

Published: June 19, 2023
ISBN: 9783111239477