![]() Statesmen, notably those in Greece, who he hoped would profit from hisĪnalysis is contained in his Histories - forty volumes describing theĬonstitution of Rome and the sequence of Roman conquests. Rome and to record the principles involved as a lesson for future Unique opportunity as a Greek to analyze the successful expansion of Roman military campaigns in the Mediterranean region. Thus able to move in the highest circles in Rome and to witness major A friendship developed that led Scipio to take Polybius with himĪs an advisor on political and military matters. Interceded for him and made him tutor of his sons Scipio and Fabius in Polybius was fortunate in that Lucius Aemilius Paulus One thousand of the principal Achaeans wereĭeported to Italy. However, after the Romans conquered Macedonia, they stabilized theirĬities of their leaders. Reached a position from which he, too, could have become its leader. Polybius advanced politically in the League and Polybius was born in Megalopolis, Arcadia, a Greek city that wasĪn active member of the Achaean League, of which his father, Lycortas, Noted for his book called The Histories covering inĭetail the period of 220–146 BC. 203–120 BC, Greek Πολύβιος) wasĪ Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period ![]()
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