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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

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $9.59 CAD

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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

    $12.99 CAD

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

    Enriched edition.

    by Polybius, Chelsea Abbott ...
    Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Friedrich Hultsch ...
    In 'The Histories of Polybius', the author provides a detailed account of the rise of Rome from 264 to 146 BC. Polybius combines historical facts with analysis, making this work a significant contribution to ancient historiography. Written in a straightforward and lucid style, the book offers insight into the political and military events of the time, as well as the complex interplay of different ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 Histories of Polybius (Vol.1&2)

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Ancient World: Military Strategy, Politics, and Society in Polybius' Histories

    by Polybius, Kelsey Bates ...
    Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Friedrich Hultsch ...
    In "The Histories of Polybius (Vol. 1 & 2)", the ancient historian Polybius offers a meticulous account of the rise of the Roman Republic and its eventual domination over the Mediterranean world during the late Hellenistic period. Composed in a clear, analytical style that combines narrative with rigorous assessment, these volumes encompass both political and military aspects from the Second Punic ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Works of Polybius (Delphi Classics)

    by Polybius, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 29 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    Polybius was a leading Hellenistic historian, whom many regard as the natural successor to Thucydides. The great theme to his ‘Histories’ was a study of ‘what made Rome great’, exploring the rise of the Republic, the destruction of Carthage and the eventual Roman domination of the Greek world. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • 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 Great Historians of the Ancient World (Illustrated) In 3 vol. Vol. I

    The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, The Histories by Herodotus, Anabasis by Xenophon, The Histories of Polybius, Plutarch Lives by Plutarch and others

    by Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Polybius, Plutarch, Strabo ...
    Translated by Richard Crawley, A. D. Godley, H. G. Dakyns, Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, John Dryden, H. C. Hamilton ...
    Most of what is known of the ancient world comes from the accounts of antiquity's own historians.Ancient history is the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as post-classical history.Historians have two major ways of understanding the ancient world: archaeology and the study of source texts. Primary sources are those sources closest ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Greatest Classics of Roman Literature

    Epic, History, Philosophy, Satire, and the Voices of Republic and Empire

    by Plutarch, Livy, Suetonius, Tacitus, Polybius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Sallust, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome Augustus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Flavius Josephus, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Marcus Aurelius, Titus Lucretius Carus, Terence, Ovid, Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, Petronius Arbiter, Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, Lucilius, Lucius Apuleius ...
    The Greatest Classics of Roman Literature gathers the capacious record of Rome's imaginative, political, philosophical, and historical self-fashioning. Epic, lyric, elegy, satire, comedy, romance, oratory, memoir, technical prose, natural inquiry, biography, and historiography appear in illuminating proximity. Monumental narratives of foundation and empire stand beside intimate poems of desire, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Real Story of Rome: 15 History Books by Roman Authors

    Fifteen Classical Histories of Conquest, Civil War, Empire, and Roman Memory

    by Julius Caesar, Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Suetonius, Plutarch, Polybius, Sallust, Flavius Josephus, Strabo ...
    The Real Story of Rome gathers fifteen foundational historical works to chart Rome's emergence, expansion, and transformation across republic, empire, and late antiquity. Moving between annalistic narrative, biography, ethnography, military analysis, political invective, and geographical description, the volume reveals that Roman history was never a single story. Accounts of civil discord, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD