TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waterfield, Robin,
AU  - Waterfield, Robin
TI  - Taken at the Flood:  : the Roman Conquest of Greece
T2  - Ancient warfare and civilization
SN  - 9780198767473
U1  - 939.87 WAT 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Oxford University Press, 
KW  - History
KW  - History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
KW  - Europe -- Illyria
KW  - Griechenland
KW  - Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C
N1  - Prelude: Clouds in the West --
Rome Turns East --
The Illyrian Wars --
Barbarians, Go Home! --
King Philip of Macedon --
The Freedom of the Greeks --
The Road to Thermopylae --
The Periphery Expands --
Remote Control --
Perseus' Choice --
The End of Macedon --
Imperium Romanum --
The Greek World After Pydna --
Key Dates --
Glossary, Money, Names
N2  - 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
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