"A major accomplishment. Eckstein's merit is to have demonstrated
that Polybius was fully aware of the moral component of
historiography and was able to reconcile this with the purposes of
a responsible and critical scholarly historian."--Kurt Raaflaub,
Director, Center for Hellenic Studies
"A major book on a major author, this fresh and stimulating
interpretation represents a significant challenge to current
specialist thinking. It forcefully raises the fundamental
historiographic questions of praise and blame and the function of
history."--Philip A. Stadter, Falk Professor in The Humanities,
University of North Carolina
"In Polybius's Histories, as Eckstein so adroitly shows,
politicians see their predecessors, even in defeat or failure,
praised when they act nobly and responsibly, thus finding by
example a code of ethical behavior and moral duty that remains a
guide to conduct even in changin circumstances."--Richard Mitchell,
author of Patricians and Plebians: The Origins of the Roman State
(1990)
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