The Histories

The Histories Polybius Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 2011 ISBN: 9780674996588 Liczba stron: 624 Format: 164 x 124 x 32 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: In his history, Polybius (c. 200-118 BCE) 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.