History · c. 150 BC

The Histories, Books I–IX

by Polybius

Translated by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1889)

Polybius's account of how Rome came to rule the Mediterranean world in barely fifty-three years, from the First Punic War to the fall of Carthage, with his famous analysis of the Roman constitution in Book VI.


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