Polybius
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title:
Polybius
text:
Polybius was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covered the period of 264–146 BC, recording in detail events in Italy, Iberia, Greece, Macedonia, Syria, Egypt and Africa, and documented the Punic Wars and Macedonian Wars among many others. Polybius's Histories is important not only for being the only Hellenistic historical work to
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Ancient Greek historian and politician
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius
date created:
2001-10-30T00:07:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T17:21:19Z
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