Truth and historiographical aims in Polybius' histories by Monti, GAA

“…The thematic approach to truth has gone hand in hand with the focus on Polybius’ attitude towards historiographical methodology in relation with his predecessors, and the dissertation also delineates different types of non-truths or anti-truths in Polybius’ view, thus ‘how not to write a (false) account of events’. Indeed, in most cases Polybius’ methodology lies in the shadow of the critiques to his predecessors.…”