The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Unattributed Fragments

by Polybius

Hellenistic history.

The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674996615
• ISBN13: 9780674996618
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
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