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Cover art: The cover shows a detail of The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire by J.M.W. Turner in the Tate Gallery, London”
Blurb: “TRANSLATED BY IAN SCOTT-KILVERT AND INTRODUCED BY F. W. WALBANK
For contemporary Greeks the conquest by Rome of the Eastern Mediterranean (200-167 B.C.) was a terrifying and disheartening experience, and not everyone understood the harsh realities of the new relationship. was, therefore, primarily to enlighten his fellow countrymen that Polybius set out to explain that invincible combination of manpower, military skill and moral scrupulousness which formed the basis of Roman domination.
The forty books of his Universal History, covering the events in the third and/second centuries B.C. leading to the supremacy of Rome, present the first panoramic view of history. It was during this period that affairs in the Mediterranean world had become so interconnected as to form an organic whole, and Polybius believed that no history confined to a single area could properly diagnose the causes of events.
He therefore takes as the starting-point of his narrative the outbreak of the Second Punic. War in 220 B.C. continuing through to the destruction of Carthage and the capture of Corinth in 146 B.C. This volume contains a substantial selection from the surviving books of the History, together with an introduction, notes and maps.“