Ἱστορίαι
Histories
Author
Language
Year
written c. 146 - 118 BC
Country
Roman Greece
Genre
Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
ancient world
graeco-roman
Polybius' Histories were originally written in 40 volumes, only the first five of which are extant in their entirety. The bulk of the work was passed down through collections of excerpts kept in libraries in the Byzantine Empire. Polybius, a historian from the Greek city of Megalopolis in Arcadia, was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman victory in the Third Macedonian War, and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a great power.Wikipedia →
