The Histories by Polybius

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Histories_by_Polybius

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_documents
gptkbp:author	gptkb:Polybius
gptkbp:category	gptkb:Greek Roman history Punic Wars literature
gptkbp:coversPeriod	264 BCE – 146 BCE
gptkbp:dateWritten	2nd century BCE
gptkbp:firstPublished	15th century
gptkbp:focus	gptkb:military political history diplomatic history
gptkbp:genre	history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	The Histories by Polybius
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Edward_Gibbon gptkb:Machiavelli gptkb:Montesquieu later historians
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Thucydides Greek historiography
gptkbp:notableFor	use of sources eyewitness accounts analysis of Roman constitution analysis of mixed constitution account of Hannibal's campaign description of Roman army
gptkbp:notableRelease	gptkb:Oxford_Classical_Texts gptkb:Penguin_Classics gptkb:Loeb_Classical_Library
gptkbp:numberOfBooks	40
gptkbp:originalLanguage	gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:preservedIn	gptkb:Constantine_Porphyrogenitus Byzantine Byzantine manuscripts
gptkbp:setting	gptkb:Ancient_Rome gptkb:Greece gptkb:Mediterranean gptkb:Carthage
gptkbp:subject	Punic Wars Mediterranean world history of Rome rise of the Roman Republic
gptkbp:survivingWorks	Books 1–5 complete Books 6–40 fragments
gptkbp:translatedInto	gptkb:French gptkb:German gptkb:Latin English
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Polybian_army_system
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8