Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover. Text in English and Greek. Translated by W. R. Paton. In his history, Polybius (c. 200–118 BCE) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describes the rise of Rome, its destruction of Carthage, and its eventual domination of the Greek world. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The dust jacket shows only the slightest shelf-wear. AS NEW/FINE. . The Loeb Classical Library Series. Vol. 128. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xvi, 425 pp