Therefore, Polybius's The Histories is also useful in analyzing the different Hellenistic versions of history and of use as a credible illustration of actual events during the Hellenistic period.

Nonetheless, for Green, Polybius's Histories remain invaluable and the best source for the era it covers.

Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories.

Polybius ( 13. 6 ) in an account that either demonstrates the extent of Nabis's tyranny or Polybius's bias, tells how wealthy landowners were often summoned into his presence and forced to pay him large sums of money-those who refused were tortured, supposedly through use of a machine that resembled an Iron Maiden, known as the Apega of Nabis, made after his own wife Queen Apega.

Some of Flaubert's major plot points are departures from Polybius's account.

Furthermore, there is some admiration of Polybius's meditation on the nature of historiography in Book 12.

It has long been acknowledged that Polybius's writings are prone to a certain hagiographic tone when writing of his friends, such as Scipio, and subject to a vindictive tone when detailing the exploits of his enemies, such as Callicrates, the Achaean statesman responsible for his Roman exile.

Posidonius did not follow Polybius's more detached and factual style, for Posidonius saw events as caused by human psychology ; while he understood human passions and follies, he did not pardon or excuse them in his historical writing, using his narrative skill in fact to enlist the readers ' approval or condemnation.

They may relate to Polybius's report ( Hist.

In extant sections of the Greek historian Polybius's history of ' The Rise of the Roman Empire ', a Battle of Panium is mentioned.

Polybius's surviving histories say little of Varro at Cannae, but since his informants were the other general's son Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and grandsons Scipio Aemilianus and Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, this is not surprising.

A book entitled " Lost Histories of Tamriel " provides further insight on the Elder Scrolls, stating that when any event has actually occurred, it sets itself unchangeably into the scrolls, and no action, magical or otherwise, can alter this.

* Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900 This JISC-funded web service provides federated searching of online historical resources for research.

The account of Herodotus from his Histories provides the second-longest detail, in which Cyrus met his fate in a fierce battle with the Massagetae, a tribe from the southern deserts of Khwarezm and Kyzyl Kum in the southernmost portion of the steppe regions of modern-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, following the advice of Croesus to attack them in their own territory.

Herodotus, in his Histories, Book II, gives a detailed if selectively coloured and imaginative description of ancient Egypt.

The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.

Jakob Bernays suggested that he based his narrative of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus on the account given by Tacitus in his Histories, a portion of which has been lost.

Herodotus, a Greek historian and author of The Histories, provided an account of many Persian kings and the Greco-Persian Wars.

The Histories — his account of this period — was published during the reign of Trajan.

Some current historians tend to believe Herodotus ' account, primarily because he stated with disbelief that the Phoenicians " as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya ( Africa ), they had the sun on their right-to northward of them " ( The Histories 4. 42 ) -- in Herodotus ' time it was not known that Africa extended south past the equator ; however, Egyptologists also point out that it would have been extremely unusual for an Egyptian Pharaoh to carry out such an expedition.

Herodotus presents the Lydian accounts of the conversation with Solon ( Histories 1. 29 -. 33 ), the tragedy of Croesus ' son Atys ( Histories 1. 34 -. 45 ) and the fall of Croesus ( Histories 1. 85 -. 89 ); Xenophon instances Croesus in his panegyric fictionalized biography of Cyrus: Cyropaedia, 7. 1 ; and Ctesias, whose account is also an encomium of Cyrus.

The Commonitorium and the Histories are a response, at least in their origins, to the direct influence that Saint Augustine exercised over Orosius. Although Paulus Orosius ’ s most important book was the Historiae Adversus Paganos, his other two surviving books must also be taken into account: Commonitorium and Liber Apologeticus.

This is Herodotus's account ( Histories 1. 31 ) of the story and it comes couched as advice from Solon the Athenian to Croesus as to who the most blessed people in history are.

In his Histories, Tacitus relates the account of divination rites at the famous Temple of Venus at Paphos ; according to traditional tales, this temple was founded by King Aerias, but others say Cinyras consecrated the temple, which was built right on the spot where the goddess had first stepped on the land after her birth from the sea.

His Histories continue the account of the rise and expansion of Roman dominance, which he appears to have supported.

The ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, refers to firths repeatedly in his account of the Battle of Salamis in his 8th book of The Histories.

* The chief authority for the history of the insurrection is Tacitus, Histories, iv., v., whose account breaks off at the beginning of Civilis's speech to Cerialis.

The Greek historian Polybius, in his Histories, gives a graphic account of mining and counter mining at the Roman siege of Ambracia:

The Telnarian Histories were critically and popularly regarded as an unfortunate deviation from Norman's Gor series, perhaps due to a combination of his unconvincing attempts to be a futurist ( directly introducing a large number of Imperial Roman social customs and names of early Germanic tribes into his account of a declining galactic empire, for example ) and his departing from many of the conventions of his already established Gor legacy.

21-35, containing a full account of his trial and condemnation, Histories, 2.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus gives an account of exhibitionistic behaviors from the fifth century BC in The Histories.

The earliest literary reference to a winch can be found in the account of Herodotus of Halicarnassus on the Persian Wars ( Histories 7. 36 ), where he describes how wooden winches were used to tighten the cables for a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont in 480 B. C.

Conant contributed to the 1950 Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science with an account of the overthrow of the phlogiston theory.

Some have suggested that Aegyptiaca was written as a competing account to Herodotus ' Histories, to provide a national history for Egypt that did not exist before.

If such were the case, Aegyptiaca was a failure, since Herodotus ' Histories continued to provide the standard account in the Hellenistic world.

Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have Catiline's War ( about the conspiracy in 63 BCE of L. Sergius Catilina ), The Jugurthine War ( about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE ), and the Histories ( of which only fragments survive ).

The historian Tacitus painted an unforgettably dark picture of the early empire in his Histories and Annals, both written in the early 100s.

His Histories describes a year of crisis for the young empire in 69, when for the first time the system established by the Julio-Claudian dynasty as a solution to civil war was severely tested by the question of succession.

His travel accounts, as well as those of another trader, Ohthere, were included in Alfred the Great's translation of Orosius ' Histories.

His Histories were not, therefore, concerned with isolated political history of peoples and individuals, but they included discussions of all forces and factors ( geographical factors, mineral resources, climate, nutrition ), which let humans act and be a part of their environment.

The overall scope of the historiographical tradition in China is termed the Twenty-Four Histories, created for each successive Chinese dynasty up until the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ); China's last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ), is not included.

A brief glance at Homer's poems, the works of the tragedians, and Herodotus's Histories shows that many of the most influential literary forms in Thucydides ' time included substantial first-person speeches.

These Lingones were part of a wave of Celtic tribes that included the Boii and Senones ( Polybius, Histories ii. 17 ).

Finally there is the suggestion that Herodotus records this battle and Egyptian campaign in his writings about the pharaoh Necho, that are included in his famous Histories:

Herodotus wrote of a ' district of Syria, called Palaistinê " in The Histories, the first historical work clearly defining the region, which included the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley.

Histories he wrote included Scots in Canada ( 1911 ), Steel of Empire: The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific ( 1935 ), Canadian Mosaic ( 1938 ) and two histories of nursing.