Book
The Histories
by Polybius
- Published
- -170
- Genre
- Classics
- Publisher
- Franklin Classics Trade Press
- Pages
- 540
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551630.The_Histories_Vol_1?ac=1&from_search=true
The main part of Polybius's history covers the years 264-146 BCE. It describes the rise of Rome to the destruction of Carthage and the domination of Greece by Rome. It is a great work, accurate, thoughtful, largely impartial, based on research, full of insight into customs, institutions, geography, causes of events and character of people; it is a vital achievement of first rate importance, despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five of the forty books have reached us. Polybius's overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did.
Collections
TJEd Adult Recommended
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780343950149
- ISBN-10
- 0343950146
Tags
Ancient HistoryCommunity Life-PoliticsGovernentGreeceRoman EmpireRomeSocial Studies-GeographyThomas Jefferson Education AdultWar