Polybius's account of Rome's rise to dominance over the Mediterranean, written to explain how and why it happened. It develops the theory of mixed constitutions and the cycle of governments.
Sources for Polybius — The Histories
Polybius — The Histories in History
Held in the History chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Herodotus — The Histories (−440)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Sima Qian — Records of the Grand Historian (−94)
- Tacitus — Annals (110)
- Ibn Khaldun — Muqaddimah (1377)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Livy — The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) (−27)
- Tacitus — Germania (98)
- Suetonius — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121)
- Gibbon — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)
- Macaulay — The History of England (1848)
- Parkman — France and England in North America (1865)