- Feeney 1991, 119.
- Naevius fr. 8 Büchner; see Feeney 1991, 118, for discussion and earlier
bibliography. - Purcell 1995, 139.
- Rawson 1989.
- Rawson 1989, 428, 430, 434, 438, 446.
- Purcell 1994, 403.
- Rawson 1989, 446.
- Polyb. 15.35.6; cf. Rawson 1989, 434, 438.
- Wiseman 2000, esp. 299, well brings out the Roman interest in Athens from
around 300 b.c.e.at least; cf. Purcell 2003, 22, on Hellenistic antiquarian interest in
“elucidating the complexities of the vast and singular Athenian state” — an interest
Romans will have shared as they contemplated their own vast and singular state. On
the power of Athens as a potential counterweight to Rome in Ovid ’s Metamorphoses,
see Gildenhard and Zissos 2004, esp. 71. Lamberton (1997, 153 – 54) rather exaggerates
the lack of interest in the Athenian political paradigm during the Hellenistic period, but
he well captures the enduring power of Athens as a cultural magnet over the long term. - Jacoby, FGrH239 §52 (Plataea), with Komm., 666 – 67. Compare Gellius’s
description of Chaeronea as an Athenian defeat (NA17.21.30), above, p. 41. - Above, p. 20.
- Grafton and Swerdlow 1988, 24. Cf. Champion 2000, esp. 429 – 30, for how
Polybius could treat Romans as “honorary Greeks.” Plutarch’s Livesare the most dra-
matic instantiation of this Athenocentrism: see Lamberton 1997, esp. 156. There are ten
Athenians; four Spartans; two Macedonians; two Thebans (one, Epaminondas, now
lost); then five more, scattered. Tellingly, there is no Sicilian apart from Dion, son-in-
law of Dionysius I and friend of Plato, who is there as a pair for Brutus as a “philoso-
pher in politics.” Another major figure from Sicilian history, Timoleon, finds his way
in, but he is by origin a Corinthian, whose mission in life is to overthrow Sicilian
tyrants. - For a lucid account of his operating principles, see Walbank 1972, 97 – 114; cf.
Walbank 1975. - Esp. 2.37.4; 5.31.6; see Wilcox 1987, 83 – 84, and Clarke 1999a, 114 – 28, on the
universal ambitions of Polybius’s history. - Walbank (1975, 201) points to the treaty of Naupactus in 217 b.c.e.as the
moment when the weaving together (sumplokhv) really became operative in linking all
the regions (4.28.3 – 4; 5.105.4 – 9). - The quoted phrase is from Purcell 1995, 139.
- Wilcox 1987, 85.
- Cf. Clarke 1999a, 118.
- In general, Clarke (1999a, 307 – 28; 1999b) sets the scene very well.
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