History · c. 150 BC

The Histories, Books X–XL and fragments

by Polybius

Translated by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1889)

The surviving later books of Polybius's history of Rome's rise, from the recovery of Tarentum and Scipio in Spain through Cannae's aftermath, Zama, the wars with Philip, Antiochus and Perseus, to the destruction of Carthage and Corinth in 146 BC, with his reflections on historical method and his own conclusion.


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