– Discussion Polybius , the Greek World , and Roman Imperial Expansion

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Author	Smith, Christopher Yarrow, Liv Mariah
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	his collection of essays is a Festschrift in honour of Peter Derow, the important Oxford historian of Rome, and a well-beloved teacher. Derow is best known for his depictions of Rome as an exceptionally brutal imperial predator, which sought to control the Hellenistic Greek states from almost its first encounter with the them, and to a large extent did control and indeed rule the Hellenistic Mediterranean from as early as  BC. In advocating such a reconstruction of events, Derow can be paired with W. V. Harris, both producing their major statements in : a postVietnam annus mirabilis for the emergence of an extremely dark, cynical and bitter picture of Roman expansionism. This depiction has subsequently become hugely influential within classical scholarship.  It was inevitable that the thesis would eventually provoke an antithesis, in which the exceptional character of Roman imperialism was denied, and Rome was viewed as one predator among many predators, with its major targets being other powerful imperialists, rather than relatively inoffensive neighbours. The development of a response to Derow and Harris, however, took a generation.  One important aim of this book is for Peter Derow’s students to re-assert their old teacher’s fundamental position about the nature of Roman expansionism.
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