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The geography in hellenistic histo riography. The concept of oikoumene in the Histories of Polybius

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No. 39 (2020)

Abstract

The development of geography during the hellenistic period, on one hand, was determined by the conquests of Alexander that expanded the horizons of the oikoumene towards territories unknown to the Greek world, and on the other, by a geographical tradition that related elements of other disciplines, such as: literature, philosophy, techné and history. Traditionally the concept of oikoumene is understood as the space where the greek culture expands and develops. Throughout the II century BC, in its search for universal dominion, Rome managed to dominate the Greek space politically, but integrated itself into the greek oikoumene. The present work proposes to consider that the hellenistic historiography used resources of the greek geographical tradition to manage to configure a new space, composed by the greco-hellenistic world and the territories incorporated to Roman domain of the western Mediterranean basin. For this, an analysis of the Histories of Polybius will be carried out, a work that, with a universalist objective, integrated the elements of hellenistic geography to construct a new oikoumene concept.

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Geography, Polybius, Hellenistic historiography

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Leslie Lagos-Aburto, Universidad de Concepción

Correo electrónico: llagos@udec.cl
Doctora en Historia por la P. Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Profesora de Historia Antigua del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Concepción. Miembro del Grupo de Estudios Interuniversitario del Mediterráneo Antiguo (GEIMA).
ID Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-8056

Felipe Montanares-Piña, Universidad de Concepción

Correo electrónico: felimontanares@udec.cl
Licenciado en Historia y candidato a Magister en Historia por la Universidad de Concepción. Becario de la Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID) / Programa de Becas / Beca Magíster Nacional 2020 / 22200082.
ID Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7627-5682

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Lagos-Aburto, L., & Montanares-Piña, F. (2020). The geography in hellenistic histo riography. The concept of oikoumene in the Histories of Polybius. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (39), pp. 101–124. Retrieved from https://byzantion.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/60334
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