Abstract

LAGOS-ABURTO, Leslie  and  MONTANARES-PINA, Felipe. Past, Present and Future of Οἰκουμένη in Polybius. An Introduction. Nova tellus [online]. 2024, vol.42, n.1, pp.47-62.  Epub Apr 19, 2024. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2024.42.1/278500x0100sx033.

While studying Polybius we cannot understand him without correlating his work with the history of the oikouménē, the wide world in which Mediterranean populations had reciprocal interactions within a complex network of political-cultural connections. Polybius intended to cover cultural realities that met and coexisted, since we know that The Histories were more than the mere narration of events relevant for the author, but constituted in a very overwhelming way a new methodology for History as a discipline that started a trend in Historiography. That is to say, Polybius reflected on his own time. In this paper we intend to meditate on those ideas about the past, present and future of the oikouménē from the historiographical position of Polybius.

Keywords : Polybius; Oikouménē; Past; Present and Future; Greek Historiography.

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