Polybius: Book 8

The first edition to show Polybius as an extraordinary writer and not just as a historian, focusing on a particularly varied and exciting book, here presented in a new text. It introduces Polybius as a whole and provides much help with understanding his difficult Greek and appreciating his literary artistry.

List of contents

Introduction; Sigla; Polybius Book 8; Commentary.

About the author

G. O. HUTCHINSON is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at the University of Oxford. He has published numerous books on many different aspects of Greek and Latin literature, including an edition in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series of Propertius' Elegies Book IV (2006). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Product details

• Authors: G. O. (University of Oxford) Hutchinson
• Assisted by: Hutchinson G. O. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009265850
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926585-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Historiography, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework, Phoenicia / Phoenician civilization, 3rd century, c 299 to c 200 BCE