Polybius

by Frank William Walbank

Book Overview

As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which the Romans weathered the war with Hannibal and became masters of the Mediterranean world. F. W. Walbank describes the historical traditions within which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520069811
• ISBN13: 9780520069817
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"