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  • The Histories of Polybius (Vol.1&2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Rome's Rise, the Punic Wars, and the Politics of Ancient Mediterranean Power

    by Polybius, Cora Tallowmere ...
    Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Friedrich Hultsch ...
    The Histories of Polybius (Vol. 1 & 2) opens one of antiquity's most ambitious historical enterprises: an explanation of how Rome, within scarcely fifty-three years, came to dominate the Mediterranean world. Combining military narrative, constitutional analysis, geography, and political reflection, Polybius writes in a sober, investigative style that rejects mere entertainment in favor of ... Read more

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  • The Histories

    by Polybius, Brian McGing ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her destruction of that renowned city in 146. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the ... Read more

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  • The Histories of Polybius

    Enriched edition. Unraveling the Roman Republic: A Comprehensive Account of Politics, Warfare, and Governance in Ancient Rome

    by Polybius, Kelsey Bates ...
    Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Friedrich Hultsch ...
    In "The Histories of Polybius," the ancient historian offers a meticulous account of the rise of the Roman Republic and its dominion over the Mediterranean world from 264 to 146 BCE. Written with striking clarity and employing a rigorous analytical style, Polybius' work is characterized by a systematic approach that emphasizes causation and the importance of firsthand evidence. He delves deeply ... Read more

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  • The Histories of Polybius (Complete)

    by Polybius ...
    This is the first English translation of the complete works of Polybius as far as they are now known. In attempting such a task I feel that I ought to state distinctly the limits which I have proposed to myself in carrying it out. I have desired to present to English readers a faithful copy of what Polybius wrote, which should at the same time be a readable English book. I have not been careful to ... Read more

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  • The Histories of Polybius (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Vol. I & II

    by Polybius, Cora Tallowmere ...
    Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Friedrich Hultsch ...
    The Histories of Polybius is one of antiquity's most ambitious works of historical explanation, tracing Rome's rise to Mediterranean supremacy between 264 and 146 BCE. Written in a lucid, analytical prose, it rejects mythic ornament in favor of political causation, military detail, eyewitness inquiry, and comparative constitutional analysis. Its famous account of the Roman mixed constitution ... Read more

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  • The Complete Histories of Polybius

    by Polybius ...
    Written in the 2nd century by the Greek historian Polybius, "The Histories" is a multi-volume work detailing many of the events, people, and ideas of the Hellenistic Period. While his focus is the space of time in which ancient Rome became a world power from 220 to 167 BC, Polybius also discusses his role as a 'pragmatic historian', a discourse on fate (called tyche), and the superiority of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Histories of Polybius

    Enriched edition. Vol. I & II

    by Polybius, Nolan Mercer ...
    Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Friedrich Hultsch ...
    The Histories of Polybius presents a systematic analysis of the rise of the Roman Republic and the disintegration of the Hellenistic world. Through a meticulous blend of narrative and critical analysis, Polybius employs a straightforward, yet eloquent style, infused with a profound understanding of causality and the cyclical nature of history. His examination of Rome's military, political, and ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Roman Empire

    by Polybius ...
    Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert ...
    The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the ... Read more

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  • The Histories

    by Polybius ...
    Written in the 2nd century by the Greek historian Polybius, “The Histories” is a multi-volume work detailing many of the events, people, and ideas of the Hellenistic Period. While his focus is the space of time in which ancient Rome became a world power from 220 to 167 BC, Polybius also discusses his role as a ‘pragmatic historian’, a discourse on fate (called tyche), and the superiority of the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 10 Must-Read Roman Classics

    Essential Histories, Oratory, Biography, and Stoic Wisdom on Republic, Empire, Power, and Civic Duty

    by Tacitus, Julius Caesar, Livy, Plutarch, Cicero, Suetonius, Polybius, Marcus Aurelius ...
    10 Must-Read Roman Classics gathers foundational voices of Roman and Greco-Roman antiquity into a capacious portrait of power, citizenship, war, ethics, and historical memory. Its range is striking: military narrative and imperial chronicle stand beside biography, political oratory, philosophical reflection, and constitutional analysis. Accounts of conquest, portraits of emperors, meditations on ... Read more

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  • The Histories of Polybius (Vol.1&2)

    by Polybius ...
    Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Friedrich Hultsch ...
    In "The Histories of Polybius (Vol.1&2)", the ancient historian intricately weaves a narrative that examines the rise of Rome and its unprecedented dominance in the Mediterranean world. Characterized by meticulous detail and a rigorous empirical approach, Polybius employs a blend of narrative storytelling and analytical discourse, emphasizing the cause-and-effect relationships that define ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Roman Empire: 15 Primary Sources

    Primary Accounts of Conquest, Civil War, Emperors, Governance, and Imperial Decline

    by Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Suetonius, Plutarch, Polybius, Sallust, Julius Caesar, Flavius Josephus, Strabo ...
    The Rise and Fall of Roman Empire: 15 Primary Sources assembles a capacious archive of Roman power, tracing its formation, expansion, crises, and remembered afterlives through historiography, biography, military narrative, geography, and political analysis. Republican conflict, imperial spectacle, frontier warfare, civic corruption, and the uneasy encounter between Rome and its provinces emerge in ... Read more

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