6/10/2023 0 Comments The Body by Robin WaterfieldRobin Waterfield's fresh translation makes Polybius accessible to a new generation of readers and students. Includes the only five books to survive in their entirety, plus all the fragmentary Books 6 and 12, an account of the Roman constitution and an analysis of how to write history (and how not to write it).The first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule in the years 220-146 BC, including the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal and Rome's victories in the Mediterranean.Translated by Robin Waterfield and Edited by Brian McGing Oxford World's Classics
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