Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (Ancient Warfare and Civilization) by Robin Waterfield E-book ebook PDF

Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (Ancient Warfare and Civilization)

• by Robin Waterfield (Author)
• Part of: Ancient Warfare and Civilization (10 books)

"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories

The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the Macedonian monarchy and divided the country into four independent republics. This was the crucial half-century of Rome's spectacular rise to imperial status, but Roman interest in its eastern neighbors began a little earlier, with the First Illyrian War of 229, and climaxed later with the infamous destruction of Corinth in 146.