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The Histories, Volume IV (Hardcover, Revised) Loot Price: R734
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The Histories, Volume IV (Hardcover, Revised): Polybius

The Histories, Volume IV (Hardcover, Revised)

Polybius; Translated by W.R. Paton; Revised by F. W Walbank, Christian Habicht

Series: Loeb Classical Library

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The historian Polybius (ca. 200 118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. Late in his life, as a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans, he helped in the discussions that preceded the final war with Carthage, and after 146 was entrusted by the Romans with the details of administration in Greece.

Polybius overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years 264 146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a vital achievement of the first importance despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five of its original forty books have reached us.

For this edition, W. R. Paton s excellent translation, first published in 1922, has been thoroughly revised, the Buttner-Wobst Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes and a new introduction added, all reflecting the latest scholarship.

General

Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Release date: November 2011
First published: November 2011
Authors: Polybius
Translators: W.R. Paton
Revised by: F. W Walbank • Christian Habicht
Dimensions: 162 x 108 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-99659-5
Languages: English
Subtitles: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN: 0-674-99659-3
Barcode: 9780674996595

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