The Histories Of Polybius Vol. I., by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, M.A
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About this eBook
- Author
- Polybius
- Title
- The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2)
- Credits
- Produced by Delphine Lettau, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
- Subject
- History, Ancient
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 44125
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44125
- Release Date
- November 8, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE HISTORIES OF POLYBIUS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION — I. POLYBIUS — § 2.—THE SOURCES OF POLYBIUS’S HISTORY — § 3. THE ACHAEAN LEAGUE 95 — ROMAN CAMP FOR TWO LEGIONS
- 5.BOOK I
- 6.BOOK II
- 7.BOOK III
- 8.BOOK IV
- 9.BOOK V
- 10.BOOK VI — PREFACE — ON THE ROMAN ARMY — THE ROMAN REPUBLIC COMPARED WITH OTHERS — RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION
- 11.BOOK VII — CAPUA AND PETELIA — HIERONYMUS OF SYRACUSE — TREATY BETWEEN HANNIBAL AND KING PHILIP V. OF MACEDON — MESSENE AND PHILIP V. IN B.C. 215 — THE WAR OF ANTIOCHUS WITH ACHAEUS
- 12.BOOK VIII — THE NECESSITY OF CAUTION IN DEALING WITH AN ENEMY — THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE — PHILIP TAKES LISSUS IN ILLYRIA, B.C. 213 — THE CAPTURE OF ACHAEUS AT SARDIS — THE GALLIC KING, CAUARUS — ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT AT ARMOSATA — THE HANNIBALIAN WAR—TARENTUM — FALL OF SYRACUSE, B.C. 212
- 13.BOOK IX — EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE — THE HANNIBALIAN WAR — TARENTUM — THE SPOILS OF SYRACUSE — SPAIN — ON THE ART OF COMMANDING ARMIES — THE COMPUTATION OF THE SIZE OF CITIES — THE HANNIBALIAN WAR, B.C. 211 — THE CHARACTER OF HANNIBAL — AGRIGENTUM — GREECE — INVESTMENT OF ECHINUS BY PHILIP — ASIA — EMBASSY FROM ROME TO PTOLEMY
- 14.FOOTNOTES:
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