The Histories, Volume III by Polybius

The Histories, Volume III by Polybius

In his history, Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describes the rise of Rome, its destruction of Carthage, and its eventual domination of the Greek world.

Polybius found a brilliant subject for his history in the Roman drive to supremacy in the MediterraneanAs an experienced Greek politician who lived as a hostage among the elite in Rome from 167 to 159 BC, he was ideally positioned to write it. He had formidable organizational powers, and he really did know what he was talking about. Without him, our understanding of the whole period and of the dynamics of Roman imperialism would be inconceivably impoverished. -- Denis Feeney * Times Literary Supplement *

William Roger Paton (1857–1921) was an independent scholar educated at Oxford and based in Samos. F. W. Walbank was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the British Academy. Christian Habicht is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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ISBN 13	9780674996588
ISBN 10	0674996585
Titre	The Histories, Volume III
Auteur	Polybius
Série	Loeb Classical Library
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Harvard University Press
Année de publication	2011-05-16
Nombre de pages	624
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