Polybius' History of the Mediterranean World

Historian Polybius wrote a history of the Mediterranean from 246 to 146 BCE. He was an apologist for Roman conquest, says Andrew Keen. Keen: His work is written in Greek intended for a Greek audience still reeling under Romans' conquests. The historian's famous explanation of what worked and how it didn't seems to indicate that Rome seemed to be doing anything at all during his lifetime," Keen writes.