Polybius

Leprosy, now commonly known as Hansen disease is one of the world’s oldest and most feared maladies disease. In over a thousand years the illness has managed to afflict millions of people all around the world. For centuries throughout many cultures and religions the disease was seen as a punishment from Gods or Goodness and divinely inspired and thought to be highly contagious. During the Middle Ages there was widespread beliefs about the causation of leprosy. As a result individuals who had…

republicanism and the historical context, analyse and evaluate these three core ideas, and also compare freedom in republicanism to the two concepts of liberty. Republicanism originated in Ancient Greece, based on the thoughts of Plato, Aristotle, and Polybius. The three of them were consistently against a monarchy and the tyranny a singular person in rule could bring (Dagger 2004:168). The word ‘republic’ transcends from the Latin words res publica meaning ‘public things or affairs’ (Galligan…

In this essay we shall discuss the Romans’ reaction to Greek culture whilst comparing their relations with other cultures. Therefore, it shall be necessary to consult both ancient and modern scholarship. In order to understand the Roman attitude to the Greeks we need to explore the various things which Rome absorbed from the Greeks into its own culture. Amongst these are the conflation of traditional Roman deities with their Greek counterparts, inspirations for literature and the social…

From Alexander to Caesar, there have been many famous generals that have changed the way we look at military strategy. Each great military leader along the way has continued to transform the role of a general and new generals are continually adapting their strategies to optimize what has been done before. Caesar documented his campaign through Gaul during the Gallic War and his accounts show us that he has studied the generals that preceded him. His strategies incorporated those of Alexander,…

SHORT QUESTIONS 1. Where did Oedipus send Creon at the beginning of the play? Oedipus sent Creon to the Pythian temple of Apollo, to the oracle of Delphi to ask for advice to get rid of the plague that was terrorizing Thebes. 2. Where was Laius killed? Laius was killed at a three way crossroad out of the country by Oedipus, when Oedipus and Laius had a scuffle and Oedipus ended up killing Laius. 3. Why did not anyone investigate Laius murder at the time it happened? No one tried to find out…

He felt pity for the infant. So, instead of killing that baby, shepherd informed about that child to the messenger and messenger took him to the king of Corinth (Polybius) and his wife Merope. The King and Queen of Corinth did not have children so they decided to adopt that child. It was the fate of Oedipus that from one royal family he was given away and was adopted by another one. When Oedipus grew up he somehow…

To accomplish this, we turn our attention towards Rome’s greatest historian, Livy. In his work, History of Rome, Livy dedicated ten of his 137 books to the seventeen year long Second Punic War. So to begin, Hamilcar, Hannibal’s father, was the commander of the Carthaginian forces late in the First Punic War, and this is the root of Hannibal’s great disgust for the Roman Empire. Livy tells us that after this war, when Hamilcar was preparing to transfer his troops to the Iberian Peninsula to…