Guide to Polybios of Megalopolis

Citation with stable link: Philip A. Harland, 'Guide to Polybios of Megalopolis,' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified February 26, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=18388.

This post provides a guide for reading through ethnographic passages on this website from Polybios’ Histories (ca. 140s BCE):

  • Celts – 2.13-35 and 3.57-59 (link)
  • Celts, Iberians, and Libyans in the army of Hannibal of Carthage – 3.113-114 (link)
  • Arkadians and the environmental theory – 4.20-21 (link)
  • Thracians, Galatians, Daans, Karmanians, Cilicians and others in the armies of Ptolemy IV Philopator and Antiochos III – 5.62-65, 79 (link)
  • Cretans, Spartans, Carthaginians, and Romans in comparison – 6.43-56 (link)
  • Mysians, Cilicians, Galatians, and Thracians in the army of Antiochos IV Epiphanes – 30.25-27 (link)

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