Polybius

Polybius was a Greek statesman and historian who lived during Rome’s expansion across the Mediterranean. After being taken to Rome, he wrote a history explaining how Rome defeated Carthage and the Hellenistic kingdoms and achieved Mediterranean supremacy.

In non-fiction, Polybius is discussed in Polybius’s The Rise of the Roman Empire. Polybius’s The Rise of the Roman Empire approaches the subject through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and empire, conquest and resistance.