The Histories of Polybius 2 Volume Set

The Histories of Greek-born, Roman historian Polybius (c.200 118 BCE) are reissued here in two volumes. Undertaken by the classicist Evelyn Shuckburgh (1843 1906), this first complete English translation (utilising F. Hultsch's 1867 72 Greek text) was published in 1889. A tutor, and later librarian, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Shuckburgh produced school editions of Sophocles and Suetonius as well as short histories on the classical world. This highly readable tr... >Voir plus