Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece

by Robin Waterfield

Book Overview

Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years? --Polybius, Histories

The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the Macedonian monarchy and divided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199916896
• ISBN13: 9780199916894
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"