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Polybius: Book 8
- Textbook
Published 2025
Description
Polybius is one of the most remarkable ancient historians, excelling as source, theorist and writer. Book 8 shows many sides of this extraordinary author: the superb narrator, recounting the tragic end of the potentate Achaeus and Hannibal's diverting capture of Tarentum with the aid of wild boar; the technical writer on Archimedes' sensational machines for destroying Roman ships; the zestful polemicist, railing against Theopompus' diatribe on the friends of Philip II; the thinker about history and the interconnection of world…
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Key features
- Gives detailed help with Polybius' vocabulary and sentence structures so that students can reads his text with more ease, confidence, and enjoyment
- The Introduction, Commentary, maps and photographs help students understand the events described and picture where they occurred
- Explains Polybius' literary artistry so that students can appreciate what an absorbing, inventive and organized text this is
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009265843
- Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Subjects Ancient History,Classical Literature,Classical Studies
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 25 September 2025
- ISBN: 9781009265881
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 140 mm
- Weight: 0.51kg
- Contains: 4 b/w illus. 3 maps
- Page extent: 310 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 25 September 2025
- ISBN: 9781009265850
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 140 mm
- Weight: 0.4kg
- Contains: 4 b/w illus. 3 maps
- Page extent: 310 pages
- Availability: Temporarily unavailable - no date available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 11 February 2026
- ISBN: 9781009265843
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