Polybius by Sinneslöschen, Nitro Zeus
Notes on Memesis and Death
SCOTT BENZEL
FEB 07, 2025
Caption: Polybius / Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1637-38
Figure text: POLYBIUS © 1981 SINNESLÖSCHEN, INC.
...in tragedy the plausible takes…Taken in by the Roman Consul Scipio, Polybius was allowed to travel while remaining a captive and witnessed the Punic wars and the sack of Carthage. First-hand accounts of these and other world-altering events suffuse his Histories and info…According to Pliny the Elder in The Natural History, 77-79 C.E. (in an example of laodogmatika that Polybius would have contested) the art of painting originated with people tracing the outlines of one another’s shadows. Pliny later alludes…
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