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# The Histories

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Buy The Histories by Polybius, McGing, Brian, Waterfield, Robin (ISBN: 8601411066481) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Review: Amazing pre roman history. - Incredible. It really opens up the world history of pre roman times.
Review: Terrific Edition - A great edition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 181,990 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 4,969 in Education & Reference Material for Young Adults 19,040 in History (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (211) |
| Dimensions  | 19.56 x 3.05 x 12.7 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 0199534705 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0199534708 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 560 pages |
| Publication date  | 11 Nov. 2010 |
| Publisher  | OUP Oxford |
| Reading age  | 13 years and up |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing pre roman history.
*by S***T on 18 August 2025*

Incredible. It really opens up the world history of pre roman times.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Terrific Edition
*by D***D on 27 February 2025*

A great edition

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent updating of language
*by F***O on 21 August 2021*

A worthy replacement for the excellent but now rather dated edition published by Penguin Classics. Unfortunately, you cannot just throw out your old Penguin copy for, as other reviewers have pointed out, this edition only goes up to book 12 of Polybius. Never-the-less, this is a worthwhile addition, as Robin Waterfield is an excellent writer and classicist and has rendered Polybius into highly readable English, replacing the now rather stilted language of the Penguin edition, which is getting a bit long in the tooth. As for other reviews taking issue with aspects of Waterfield’s new translation (and one aspect in particular), while it is possible that he may have mistranslated or misunderstood the Greek word ‘lonche’ this is by no means certain and I suspect Mr Waterfield’s knowledge of Greek is far superior to ours. We do not really know what the word meant in the second century B.C. or just how it was understood by Polybius and his Greek audience. Claims that he was a technically correct writer are rather fantastical. He was not writing military history; he was trying to explain to his readers how their country (and the rest of the Mediterranean) had come under the yoke of the Romans. (And as he was writing under Roman patronage this means we cannot take everything he says at face value either.) Suggestions that he would have used a different word for this or that, make the assumption that all Greek words then meant the same as we understand them to mean now. Clearly this is nonsense. With reference to the sarissa for example, which some think means ‘pike’. According to Everson this probably meant nothing more than ‘long spear’ originally. Arguments about what words such as ‘lonche’ (or sarissa for that matter) may have meant over two thousand years ago are, frankly, pointless.

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