Histories (Polybius)

Account of the rise of Rome by Polybius

Polybius' Histories (Ancient Greek: Ἱστορίαι Historíai) is a historical account of the rise of Rome, written in the 2nd century BC. They 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 (171–168 BC), and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a great power.

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