The Histories (Polybius)(Paperback)

The Histories (Polybius)(Paperback)

Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. Polybius, himself a

The Histories (Polybius)(Pevná vazba)

The historian Polybius (c. 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus

The Histories (Polybius)(Pevná vazba)

The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius

The Histories (Polybius)(Pevná vazba)

The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius

The Histories (Polybius)(Pevná vazba)

The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 bc) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the

The Rise of the Roman Empire (Polybius)(Paperback)

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion:

Dějiny III (Polybios) - Polybios

Polybiovo dějepisné dílo se dochovalo zčásti v úplnosti, zčásti torzovitě. První pětice knih, jež se dochovaly neporušené, vyšla v AK ve dvou předchozích svazcích - Dějiny I a Dějiny II. Třetí díl Polybiových Dějin obsahuje dochované části a zlomky 6. až 19. knihy. Jsou

Dějiny I (Polybios) - Polybios

Polybios patří spolu s Hérodotem a Thúkydidem do velké trojice starořeckých historiků. Žil v době římské expanze a ač byl Řek tělem i smyšlením, přijal její ideologii a světovládné ambince. Politicky se angažoval ve vedení achajského spolku a po záboru Řecka Římem r

Dějiny II. - Polybios

První díl Polybiových Dějin (vyd. 2008, AK 78) obsáhl ze čtyřiceti knih jeho dějepisného díla knihy první a druhou. Autor sám je označil jako úvod, podal v nich přehled událostí v letech 264-220 př. Kr. Hlavními tématy jsou první punská válka (264-241), povstání

Polybios a jeho svět - Pavel Oliva

Polybios (asi 200-118 př. Kr.) patří k nejvýznamnějším osobnostem antické literatury. Spolu s Thúkýdidem a Hérodotem tvoří trojhvězdí starořeckého dějepisectví. Pocházel z arkadské Megalopole, z bohaté rodiny, jeho otec zastával vysokou hodnost stratéga Achajského spolku

Shakespeare: The Histories (Blades John)(Paperback)

Dějiny IV (Polybios) - Polybios

Předchozí tři svazky Polybiových Dějin (I, AK 78; II, AK 79; III, AK 80) obsáhly osmnáct ze čtyřiceti knih jeho dějepisného díla. Tento čtvrtý svazek přináší vše podstatné, co se dochovalo z dvacítky knih zbývajících, tj. XIX až XXXIX. Polybios v nich zaznamenal a vylíčil

The Histories (Tacitus)(Paperback)

In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H. Fyfe's classic translation has been

Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories (Sallust)(Paperback)

Jersey: The Hidden Histories (Darroch Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Histories (Herodotus)(Paperback / softback)

The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. This book offers a translation of Herodotus'

Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River (Alsayyad Nezar)(Paperback)

Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History: Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14 (Darnell Regna)(Paperback)

The series Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context, with a goal of increasing the awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative,

Histories of the Self: Personal Narratives and Historical Practice (Summerfield Penny)(Paperback)

Histories of the Self interrogates historians' work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Historians are interested as never before in how

Black Watch and the Great War, 1914-18 - Rediscovered Histories from the Regimental Family(Paperback / softback)

Thucydides Reader - Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories (Thucydides)(Paperback / softback)

The Annals & the Histories (Tacitus)(Paperback)

Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula),

Drawn from the Archive - Hidden Histories of Illustration (Seven Stories Press Inc.)(Paperback / softback)

Africa's Long Road Since Independence - The Many Histories of a Continent (Somerville Keith)(Paperback / softback)