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Polybius, Histories, 1.4.10
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1. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

83d. Certainly. And when this occurs, is not the soul most completely put in bondage by the body? How so? Because each pleasure or pain nails it as with a nail to the body and rivets it on and makes it corporeal, so that it fancies the things are true which the body says are true. For because it has the same beliefs and pleasures as the body it is compelled to adopt also the same habits and mode of life, and can never depart in purity to the other world, but must always go away contaminated with the body; and so it sinks quickly into another body again and grows into it

2. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

31b. Wherefore, in order that this Creature might resemble the all perfect Living Creature in respect of its uniqueness, for this reason its Maker made neither two Universes nor an infinite number, but there is and will continue to be this one generated Heaven, unique of its kind.

3. Polybius, Histories, 1.1.2, 1.2.8, 1.3.3-1.3.4, 1.4.2-1.4.3, 1.4.6-1.4.9, 1.4.11, 1.35.6-1.35.10, 8.2.3, 38.21.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

8.2.3. For how by the bare reading of events in Sicily or in Spain can we hope to learn and understand either the magnitude of the occurrences or the thing of greatest moment, what means and what form of government Fortune has employed to accomplish the most surprising feat she has performed in our times, that is, to bring all the known parts of the world under one rule and dominion, a thing absolutely without precedent? 38.21.2. For at the moment of our greatest triumph and of disaster to our enemies to reflect on our own situation and on the possible reversal of circumstances, and generally to bear in mind at the season of success the mutability of Fortune, is like a great and perfect man, a man in short worthy to be remembered. (From Appian, Punica, 132)

4. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.1.5, 1.3.8, 19.1.6-19.1.8, 37.1.6 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.3.8. The reason for this is that, in the first place, it is not easy for those who propose to go through the writings of so many historians to procure the books which come to be needed, and, in the second place, that, because the works vary so widely and are so numerous, the recovery of past events becomes extremely difficult of comprehension and of attainment; whereas, on the other hand, the treatise which keeps within the limits of a single narrative and contains a connected account of events facilitates the reading and contains such recovery of the past in a form that is perfectly easy to follow. In general, a history of this nature must be held to surpass all others to the same degree as the whole is more useful than the part and continuity than discontinuity, and, again, as an event whose date has been accurately determined is more useful than one of which it is not known in what period it happened. 19.1.6. The most extraordinary instance of all is that of Agathocles who became tyrant of the Syracusans, a man who had the lowest beginnings, but who plunged not only Syracuse but also the whole of Sicily and Libya into the gravest misfortunes. 19.1.7. Although, compelled by lack of means and slender fortune, he turned his hand to the potter's trade, he rose to such a peak of power and cruelty that he enslaved the greatest and fairest of all islands, for a time possessed the larger part of Libya and parts of Italy, and filled the cities of Sicily with outrage and slaughter. 19.1.8. No one of the tyrants before him brought any such achievements to completion nor yet displayed such cruelty toward those who had become his subjects. For example, he used to punish a private individual by slaughtering all his kindred, and to exact reckoning from cities by murdering the people from youth up; and on account of a few who were charged with a crime, he would compel the many, who had done no evil at all, to suffer the same fate, condemning to death the entire population of cities.

5. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.6.5 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

1.6.5. And I, who have not turned aside to this work for the sake of flattery, but out of a regard for truth and justice, which ought to be the aim of every history, shall have an opportunity, in the first place, of expressing my attitude of goodwill toward all good men and toward all who take pleasure in the contemplation of great and noble deeds; and, in the second place, of making the most grateful return that I may to the city and other blessings I have enjoyed during my residence in it.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
africa	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
atilius regulus,m.	Miltsios (2023), Leadership and Leaders in Polybius. 98
causes	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
conventions or themes,moral focus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
conventions or themes,political or military focus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
destruction of\n,carthage	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 68
destruction of\n,rome	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 68, 71
dionysius of halicarnassus	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
exceptionality,of events	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
fortune,τύχη/fortuna	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
fortune	Miltsios (2023), Leadership and Leaders in Polybius. 98
greece/greeks	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
historicity	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 68
history,as a body	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
history,kata meros	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
history,universal	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
italy	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
method	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
polybius	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
pragmatike historia	Miltsios (2023), Leadership and Leaders in Polybius. 98
progress,historical	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 68, 71
providence,πρόνοια/providentia	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 71
rome/romans	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
symplokē	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
truth	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 316
universal history'	Miltsios (2023), Leadership and Leaders in Polybius. 98
urzeit zu endzeit	Crabb (2020), Luke/Acts and the End of History, 68