Histories (Polybius - paperback)

Author: Polybius

Translator: Robin Waterfield

ISBN: 9780199534708

Binding: paperback

Section: History

Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. This new translation by Robin Waterfield includes the first five books in their entirety, and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12.