Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Character of Hannibal The Histories, Book IX, Chapters 22-26: Of all that befell the Romans and Carthaginians, good or bad, the cause was one man and one mind---Hannibal. For it is notorious that he managed the Italian campaigns in person, and the Spanish by the agency of the elder of his ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): Rome at the End of the Punic Wars : ROME, with the end of the third Punic war, 146 B. C., had completely conquered the last of the civilized world. The best authority for this period of her history is Polybius. He was born in Arcadia, in 204 B. C., and died in 122 B. C. Polybius was an officer of the ...