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| Title: "Polybius, Josephus, and the Capitol in Rome" Pages: 21-30 Type: Generic Year: 1996 Abstract: "Neither a personal consultation by Polybius of the Roman treaties that he quotes nor a personal consultation of the Capitol by Josephus for the Roman official decrees dealing with Jewish rights appears probrable. The claim to autopsy was developping into a kind of literary topos during this period. It is possible to wonder whether Polybius and Josephus were aware of the difference existing among an original text, its copy, and its translation. It is improvable that the two historians intended to deceive their readers. - C.R.M." Keywords: Examination of the Complete work, Jos as historian |