From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11308 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, May 9 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11308 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MD: Lower your glycemia in 4.2 seconds ["Worsen Diabetes" Subject: MD: Lower your glycemia in 4.2 seconds MD: Lower your glycemia in 4.2 seconds http://belivwoodworking.shop/LW-lpK34zuMLiNzJWZYHPGyoJNJDWUvBKIuGmwGekL8IFY44Sg http://belivwoodworking.shop/ZwcGZjHg82Qgmn4HzdHQJq6e8PPnjP8fXt9ASPhJI7BxwND9kA A key theme of The Histories is good leadership, and Polybius dedicates considerable time to outlining how the good statesman should be rational, knowledgeable, virtuous and composed. The character of the Polybian statesman is exemplified in that of Philip II, who Polybius believed exhibited both excellent military prowess and skill, as well as proficient ability in diplomacy and moral leadership. His beliefs about Philip's character led Polybius to reject the historian Theopompus' description of Philip's private, drunken debauchery. For Polybius, it was inconceivable that such an able and effective statesman could have had an immoral and unrestrained private life as described by Theopompus. The consequences of bad leadership are also highlighted throughout the Histories. Polybius saw, for instance, the character and leadership of the later Philip V of Macedon, one of Rome's leading adversaries in the Greek East, as the opposite of his earlier exemplary namesake. Philip V became increasingly tyrannical, irrational and impious following brilliant military and political success in his youth; this resulted, Polybius believed, in his abandonment by his Greek allies and his eventual defeat by Rome in 197 BC. Other important themes running throughout The Histories include the role of Fortune in the affairs of nations, how a leader might weather bravely these changes of fortune with dignity, the educational value of history and how it should demonstrate cause and effect (or apodeiktike) to provide lessons for statesmen, and that historians should be "men of action" to gain appropriate experience so as to understand how political and military affairs are likely to pan out(pragmatikoi). Polybius is considered by some to be the succ ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11308 ***********************************************