When inserting Sparta in the ‘translatio imperii’ outline, Polybius is not mixing, as often maintained, this outline with a list of cities, whose hegemony was exercised in Greece; on the contrary Sparta fits well in the succession of empires, because its rule extended both on earth and sea, even if it lasted twelve years only: so it had been the only complete empire before that of the Romans.
Zecchini, G., La translatio imperii in Polibio, in Filippo Battiston, F. B. (ed.), Polibio e Roma , l'alba di un impero, Carocci editore S.p.A., Roma, Roma 2022: 85- 93 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/221527]
La translatio imperii in Polibio
Zecchini, Giuseppe
2022
Abstract
When inserting Sparta in the ‘translatio imperii’ outline, Polybius is not mixing, as often maintained, this outline with a list of cities, whose hegemony was exercised in Greece; on the contrary Sparta fits well in the succession of empires, because its rule extended both on earth and sea, even if it lasted twelve years only: so it had been the only complete empire before that of the Romans.
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