F. W. Walbank (1909–2008)
Author of The Hellenistic world
About the Author
F. W. Walbank is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool
Series
Works by F. W. Walbank
The Folio History of Ancient Greece : Four Volumes The Lyric Age, The Persian Wars, The Classical Age, The Hellenistic… (2002) 91 copies
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 8: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C. (1989) — Editor — 76 copies
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 7 Pt. 2: The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C. (1989) — Editor — 72 copies
Associated Works
Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World (Hellenistic Culture and Society) (1994) — Contributor — 10 copies
Ancient society and institutions: studies presented to Victor Ehrenberg on his 75th birthday (1966) — Contributor — 8 copies
Leaders and Masses in the Roman World: Studies in Honor of Zvi Yavetz (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava… (1995) — Contributor — 3 copies
The shadow of Polybius : intertextuality as a research tool in Greek historiography : proceedings of the international… (2005) — Contributor — 2 copies
Ancient Macedonian Studies in Honor of Charles F. Edson — Contributor — 1 copy
Historiographia antiqua : commentationes Lovanienses in honorem W. Peremans septuagenarii editae (1977) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Walbank, Frank William
- Birthdate
- 1909-12-10
- Date of death
- 2008-10-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
- Occupations
- professor (Ancient History and Classical Archaeology)
- Organizations
- University of Liverpool
Members
Reviews
The Cambridge Ancient History: Rome and the… by Edited by A. E. Astin F. W. Walbank M. W. Frederiksen R. M. Ogilvie
Another volume read in an ambitious plan to read the Cambridge Ancient History as a whole. Excellent background resource, if someone wants to delve in depth in a particular topic from this era - this would be a starting point, a map to start exploring.
Originally published in 1939, but a standard reference until the 1990's, this volume in the series wears well. However, it is eighty two years old by now, and reference to more recent work is obviously warranted for professional and educational reading. That said, there is much remaining to gleaned from this book, and it does point the reader to an informed opinion of later efforts in this field.
Walbank offers the interesting idea, that the Romans didn't fall because of general or specific decadence, but because the Villa-based economy had become so self-sufficient that there was no need for the local movers and shakers to engage with a centralizing government, so they let it lapse until it was too late to put it back together. This is a simplification, but still a strand to be dealt with in further writing on the topic. Kind of an elephant in the room, in "Fall of Rome" discussions. He originally advanced this theory in 1947.… (more)
Written in the 1940s and asks the question "Was ancient Rome a fascist state?"
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- Works
- 21
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- 12
- Members
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- Popularity
- #26,342
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 53
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