Histories, Volume 1

How did Rome take the world in fifty three years? Polybius, a Greek hostage living inside the Roman elite, set out to answer exactly that. He gives the Punic wars, the constitution he admired, the machinery of the legions, and the theory of political cycles that later shaped the American founders. You will discover the most analytical historian of antiquity, writing about the winners from inside the room. The first serious study of a superpower. Press play and take notes.